Base prices for handling packaging
VANA's prices are in DKK per kilogram excluding VAT. The base prices for Q4 2025 can be found below (regulated 18/09-2025), as they will also be included in VANA's terms from October 1st, 2025. Prices for 2026 are expected to be announced in early November 2025, when the municipalities have announced their fees for 2026.
The base prices are adjusted annually at the turn of the year and cover:
- the municipalities' costs for collecting household waste
- VANA's costs associated with the transport and treatment of packaging waste distributed by material categories
- VANA's costs for disbursing compensation for commercial packaging waste
- VANA's administrative and financial costs associated with handling packaging waste.
Note that the total costs for handling packaging also consist of fees to The Danish Environmental Protection Agency and Dansk Producentansvar (DPA) as well as an annual base contribution to VANA. Read more here.
See the significance of the allocation for the pricing of the PROs
For the other 5 material categories: textile, porcelain, cork, ceramics, and other, a price of 0.24 DKK/kg is set.
The same price is paid for the handling of the respective material categories, whether it concerns ordinary waste, residual waste, or hazardous waste. The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has indicated that it is the packaging that should be eco-modulated, and it therefore does not matter for the price whether it is classified as ordinary waste, residual waste, or hazardous waste, but rather the criteria in the guidance's appendix 14 that determine it. Link to the guidance
Regulation of prices
The prices of VANA are primarily adjusted once a year and are outlined in VANA's terms. The prices are set by VANA's board and are applicable for one calendar year at a time. The prices for the upcoming year are announced every year at the beginning of November, after the municipalities have published their fees for the coming year.
VANA's prices can be adjusted continuously within a calendar year with one month's notice under special circumstances, such as fluctuations in raw material prices, number of members, transfers from other collective schemes, etc.
Members are always directly informed via email about any adjustments to prices.
Price adjustment September 2025
The base prices of VANA were adjusted on September 18, 2025, based on the government's political announcement regarding the adjustment of the framework for producer responsibility for packaging.
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has since the price adjustment on 18/9 informed that the updated key figures for payment for households' non-packaging as well as commercial packaging waste, which VANA has based its price recalculation on, contain errors. This error will be incorporated into our next recalculation of base prices, which is expected to become effective from January 1, 2026 - unless the content of the revised version of the statutory order on packaging, which is currently pending, necessitates adjustments beforehand.
Bonus/malus (based on eco-modulation)
The eco-modulation constitutes 35% (malus) of the operational costs and is based on the bonus/malus model. Malus includes expenses for the collection, transport, and treatment of packaging waste. Pure administrative costs are not included. This means that companies that make available packaging with low recyclability (red) must pay a larger portion of the costs (malus).
Read more about eco-modulation and the bonus/malus model
Bonus for companies that make available packaging with high recyclability (green) depends on the distribution between green and red reports in the respective material categories. Therefore, VANA pays out bonuses based on the following tier model until knowledge of the distribution is established based on members’ ongoing reporting:
2025: Members pay the base price for quantities in the green level. In June 2026, bonuses will be paid to the members who have reported in the green level.
2026: Members pay the base price minus bonus (calculated as 25% of the expected charged malus). In June 2027, any remaining bonuses will be paid to the members who have reported in the green level.
2027: Members pay the base price minus bonus (calculated as 50% of the expected charged malus). In June 2028, any remaining bonuses will be paid to the members who have reported in the green level.