Our Priority: The best high-quality recycling

Read about our services
Services for recycling customers
Services for packaging manufacturers

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.

Our offer to sorting customers

Our sorting customers send materials to our facility for sorting. We offer a cost-effective system for advanced sorting and high-quality material recycling of plastic packaging.

With Site Zero, we can sort more types of plastic more efficiently than conventional sorting facilities. This gives our customers a higher recycling contribution – the proportion of the plastic packaging we receive that is recycled into raw material in accordance with EU regulations. Our recycling contribution is approximately 40 per cent higher than that of conventional sorters.

Advanced sorting enables us to identify more plastic and sort it correctly, leading to increased resource efficiency. At Site Zero, we sort and enable the recycling of twelve types of plastic, which corresponds to the majority of the types of plastic used in the Nordic packaging market. More than 80 per cent of the sorted plastic can be used in new plastic packaging or other high-quality plastic products.

Our process reduces the climate impact of your plastic packaging by avoiding incineration and reducing the need for new fossil raw materials to a greater extent than conventional sorters. In addition, we strive for fossil-free transport and renewable energy throughout the value chain.

We offer a unique, third-party verified traceability process that ensures and reports on how materials are handled in the value chain. We provide transparent reporting, including annual recycling statistics and climate data. Read more about our traceability work at Sustainability

We share our knowledge through consulting, education and research collaborations to improve design for recycling, increase collection and optimise recycling.

  • 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.

Would you like us to handle your plastic packaging?
Contact your producer responsibility organisation for assistance. You can also contact us at info@svenskplastatervinning.se and we will help you further.

We sort out the following plastics

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.

EPS
PS
Flexible PO-mix & Rigid PO-mix
PVC
PP
HDPE
LDPE
Transparent PET bottles
Colored PET bottles
Transparent plastics
PP-flex

Our work with research and development

Moving from a linear to a circular economy for plastic packaging requires major systemic changes and technological development. We are investing both time and financial resources in a number of different research and development projects.

Current and completed research and development projects

A model for the plastic packaging of the future

In 2023, a completely new plastic packaging was launched on the Swedish market: the SKONA bottle, made from 95 per cent recycled plastic from Swedish households. The project to develop the plastic packaging was a successful collaboration throughout the entire chain, demonstrating that circularity in plastic packaging is possible.

Visit Site Zero?

There is considerable interest in visiting us, but at present we can only accommodate representatives from industry, local authorities, trade associations, certain interest groups, government agencies and politicians. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by email at info@svenskplastatervinning.se.