EPR fundamentals
A licensing trademark indicating a producer contributes to a packaging recovery scheme, mandatory in some markets and voluntary in others.
The Green Dot mark shows that a fee has been paid to a packaging recovery organisation. It says nothing about the recyclability of the pack itself, which is a persistent source of consumer misunderstanding.
Its legal status varies. In Spain and several other markets it is effectively required as part of scheme membership; in Germany it is now optional and is one dual system's commercial mark rather than a legal requirement.
Because the mark is licensed, using it without a current licence in a market where it is trademarked is an infringement risk independent of packaging law.
Spain's collective schemes for household packaging and for glass, operating under the Royal Decree on packaging waste.
The German model in which competing private schemes collect and recycle household packaging alongside the municipal waste system.
A collective scheme that producers join to discharge their EPR obligations, handling registration, reporting infrastructure, fee collection and recycling contracts.
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