Briefly in English

In Finland, producer responsibility applies to these products:

• Batteries (incl. inside vehicles and electrical equipment)
• Vehicles
• Packaging
• Paper and paper products
• Tyres
• Electrical and electronic equipment
• Single-use plastic products
• Fishing gear containing plastics

(In addition, beverage packages have their own deposit return system.)

According to the national Waste Act, manufacturers, importers, distance sellers and packers of the above-mentioned products have both an obligation and the right to organise the waste management of their products when they are decommissioned. Producer responsibility covers the collection, transport and waste treatment/recycling of the products. Parallel waste collection systems may only be established in cooperation with the producer. The easiest way to manage producer responsibilities is to join a producer responsibility organization (PRO). With the form below, you can contact the Finnish PROs.

Manufacturers, importers, distance sellers and packers of certain products are responsible for the waste management of their products. It makes recycling easy and efficient. The producer responsibility system works best when all producers work together for an efficient circular economy. The goal of producer responsibility is to prevent the generation of waste and the littering of the environment and to promote the utilization of waste.

The Finnish PROs have organized a nationwide collection network of tens of thousands of collection points. These include collection from municipal locations, store collection points and also collection from households and residential units. PROs carry out the statutory obligations on behalf of the company:

• collection, transport, management and recycling of end-of-life products.
• reporting monitoring data to the supervisory authority on an annual basis
• ensuring that recycling targets are met.

Please select below the producer responsibilities for which you would like more information on. You can use Pirkanmaa Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centre) website and chatbot to check which producer responsibilities your company should take care of.

Please note that different producer responsibilities are managed by different PROs. If you want to take care of producer responsibility for, for example, an electronic device that also includes packaging and a battery, the company must join three different PROs.

Please fill in the the form, and we will forward the request for additional information to the selected PROs. Once the request is received by the PRO, additional information about joining the PRO will be sent to your contact person by email.