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The authorised packaging company EKO‑KOM operates a nationwide system that provides take back and recovery of packaging waste – in accordance with the Packaging Act. No. 477/2001 Coll..
The EKO‑KOM System is based on the cooperation of industrial enterprises (clients), towns and villages. The system ensures that waste from packaging used by the consumer is sorted out, transported by refuse collecting vehicles, finally sorted and used as a secondary raw material.
Way of the packaging waste and the pattern of distribution of remuneration in the EKO‑KOM System
The green arrows
These arrows show the path of packaging: Your consumers will buy the product and then will throw packaging into the color container for sorting waste. Collecting companies transports sorted packaging waste to the sorting line, where the waste is further categorized according to the different types of further processing. This modified waste goes to the processors, where recycled products are produced – this way the sorted PET bottles can returnes to you as a new cycling jersey …
The grey arrows
In , of the annual costs of authorised packaging company EKO‑KOM, a.s. were used to ensure the collective compliance.
Specifically, the breakdown was as follows: more than was accounted for by the direct costs of waste activities (collection of packaging and provision of a collection network in municipalities, littering payment, re-sorting of packaging waste, waste recovery, direct support for recycling and collection of commercial waste).
Municipalities and their inhabitants are key to the sorting of packaging waste, therefore municipalities are responsible for the largest share. Direct payments to the participating municipalities for providing packaging waste take-back and collection networks and for delivering it through collection companies for re-sorting and littering payment accounted for overall in . The level of rewards to municipalities depends mainly on the amount of waste sorted and increases with the efficiency of the collection system.
were incurred for the sorting of packaging waste, recovery and direct support for packaging recycling and collection of commercial waste.
Last year, the cost of securing proof of all packaging and waste flows, including its controls and regular audits, was .
The costs of compulsory education, education of pupils in the field of environmental protection, informing consumers and other activities leading to the correct and efficient sorting of waste in the Czech Republic represented of the total costs.
Administration and management costs amounted to and statutory state levies amounted to of total costs.
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