Services for recycling customers - Svensk plaståtervinning

How we work

We are active throughout the value chain to reduce the climate footprint of plastic packaging and enable truly circular plastic flows.

We collaborate with producers and producer responsibility organisations on design for recycling, work to increase collection rates, and ensure that as much material as possible is sorted and recycled within our own closed-loop systems.

Our ability to identify and sort the right types of plastic — in the right way — influences the entire value chain and enables us to offer a range of services to the market.

Procedures for collaboration

The recycling facility must be located within the EU.
The recycling facility must be certified by Recyclass.
The recycling facility must have an approved recycling process for consumer plastics.
The recycling facility must conduct a test run for an initial evaluation.
A countersigned agreement is required for test runs and tests.
A recycling report (including recycling yield and GHG protocol) must be submitted from the test run.
SPÅ will analyse potential future collaboration based on the test run and the recycling report.
If both parties wish to proceed with a disposal agreement, negotiations will take place and an agreement will be signed.

What we offer recycling customers

Our recycling customers are certified operators within the EU who receive the sorted material for further processing. They are important partners in closing the loop.

High quality

We supply sorted material of high and consistent quality, which gives our customers improved recycling yields and lower costs. In 2024, we developed our own quality specifications that better reflect our high quality than the specifications currently applied in the market.

High delivery reliability

Site Zero is robust with high operational reliability, thanks to systematic maintenance work and the flexibility of the facility.

Large volumes and new business opportunities

As the world’s largest sorting facility, we can offer large volumes. Many of the types of plastic we sort have not been sorted before, which creates new markets and business opportunities.

Prior approval for cross-border waste shipments

We have a three-year pre-approval for cross-border waste transport (2025–2028). For our customers, this means:

Safety and compliance – approved by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with EU regulations
Faster and smoother transport – reduced risk of delays
Less administration – notification only every three years instead of annually

For further information, please contact:
Therese Cederblom, +46 (0)767 99 90 17, therese.cederblom@svenskplastatervinning.se

Reduction of CO2

reduced emissions

Compared to 2020, we have reduced emissions per tonne of recycled plastic raw material by 45 per cent.

Recycled 2024

tons

In 2024, we recycled 30,651 tonnes of plastic packaging. The previous year, 25,096 tonnes were recycled.

Recycling contribution 2024

could be recycled

Of the plastic packaging that we received at the facility, 42.4% was recycled in 2024.

Up to

sorted out

We have the capacity to sort up to 95% of all plastic packaging received, depending on the quality of the incoming material.

We sort out

Rigid PP, rigid HDPE, flexible LDPE, flexible PP, transparent PET trays, transparent PET bottles, coloured PET bottles, EPS, PS, PVC, two grades of mixed polyolefin laminates, as well as metal and non-plastic rejects.