EU PPWR

    CONAI

    Italy's national packaging consortium, which collects the environmental contribution on packaging placed on the Italian market.

    CONAI is the umbrella consortium for packaging in Italy, working through material-specific consortia for steel, aluminium, paper, wood, plastic and glass. Producers and users of packaging join CONAI and pay the Contributo Ambientale CONAI, a per-tonne environmental contribution.

    Plastic packaging is subject to a diversified contribution split into bands by sortability and recyclability, which is one of Europe's more granular eco-modulation structures. Paper packaging has its own banding based on recoverability.

    Italy also requires environmental labelling identifying material and disposal instructions, enforced independently of the contribution.

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    • Eco-modulation

      Adjusting EPR fees up or down according to the environmental performance of the packaging, rewarding recyclable design and penalising problem formats.

    • Harmonised labelling

      The PPWR requirement for standardised material and disposal labelling on packaging and on waste receptacles across the EU.

    • Producer responsibility organisation (PRO)

      A collective scheme that producers join to discharge their EPR obligations, handling registration, reporting infrastructure, fee collection and recycling contracts.

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