Producer responsibility organisations (PRO's)

A PRO is the most obvious way to handle your producer responsibility. The PRO handles the obligations for collection, sorting, waste treatment, statutory reporting to the authorities and payments to municipalities, private waste collectors, etc. The individual producer reamains responsible for reporting the correct data and paying to the PROs as well as conducting self-monitoring.

Members of VANA benefit from significant economies of scale – for the benefit of both the environment and the companies' bottom line. We cover all packaging fractions, are nationwide and work not-for-profit. As a collective scheme, VANA solves the following tasks for our members from the time the producer responsibility comes into force:

• VANA ensures that you live up to your obligations for, among other things, collection, sorting and waste treatment of the packaging you put on the market.
• VANA documents the actual recycling.
• VANA ensures that your data is reported to Dansk Producentansvar and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency
• VANA handles agreements, dialogue and compensation with municipalities and private waste collectors.
• VANA ensures a cost-effective fee structure that rewards the most sustainable packaging (the fee structure is set by the authorities).

Read more about the benefits of being a member of VANA here.

In addition, we see it as our task at VANA to make it as simple and straightforward as possible for our members to comply with the producer responsibility; Among other things, by developing an easy and clear reporting system, so that you only have to deal with reporting data in one place.

This means that the more members we are in VANA and the larger the volume of packaging we handle, the better prices we can negotiate with the suppliers, so that it is as cost-effective and simple as possible when you take over the responsibility for the packaging you put on the market throughout the entire life cycle.

See a selection of our members here.