The product group covers a wide range of product types - such as coffee and tea filters, disposable cups, freezer bags, pizza boxes, plates, bowls and trays.
Disposables for food encompasses take-away packaging such as coffee mugs and pizza boxes, containers and paper for wrapped food, disposables such as mugs, glasses, plates, cutlery and straws, bags and films for packaging food such as bread bags, freezer bags, fruit and vegetables, coffee and tea filters, toothpicks, cocktail sticks and mixing sticks. There are strict requirements for raw materials and chemicals used in the production of Nordic Swan Ecolabelled disposables focusing on environmental and health aspects. Requirements help to promote increased recycling, reduce product environmental impact, contribute to reduced use of fossil raw materials and avoid biodiversity loss.
The requirements include:
A Nordic Swan Ecolabelled disposable for food must be produced with a high proportion of renewable material or recycled plastic.
Prohibition of fluorine compounds, phthalates, bisphenol A, flavours, perfumes and PVC.
Environmental and health properties of adhesives and dyes.
Marking with sorting symbol / text.
The wood products must be determined and certified.
Prohibition of recycled paper, paperboard and cardboard.
Below you will find all the necessary documents and background information to apply for the Nordic Swan Ecolabel.
0,3 % of the licence's annual turnover in the Nordic countries excl. VAT
Minimum fee for Nordic region
2 000 EUR + VAT per year
Maximum fee for Nordic region
No maximum fee
Fees for sale outside the Nordic region
(Only if revenue > EUR 300,000 per year)
2 000 EUR + VAT per year
* When both the applicant and the manufacturer are micro-enterprises, the fee is reduced by 50%. A micro-enterprise is in this context defined as an enterprise with less than 10 employees and an annual turnover (of both ecolabelled and not ecolabelled products) below 2 million EUR.
** Where audits requires more than one day away from the office including travelling, Nordic Ecolabelling can invoice an additional fee of 1 000 EUR per extra day. Other extraordinary costs induced by the audit can also be invoiced the applicant.
*** As for an extension of or amendments to a licence, time consumed in connection with the review process will be invoiced according to the extent of the required task. We make a distinction between entirely administrative tasks that last less than 1 hour, and all other tasks that last between 1 and 4 hours, between 4 and 8 hours and more than 8 hours.
The recipient is liable for the VAT according to article 56 of the Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
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