Financing
Estonian Recovery Organization (ERO) is a non-profit organization. It finances its activities by recovery fee. Once a company concludes a Client Contract, it has a right to attach the Green Dot to packaging circling in the ERO system. In compliance with the user-pays principle, the recovery fees are calculated on the basis of the material used, the weight of items sold. They also take account of the different costs incurred for collecting and sorting the packaging materials and, in the case of plastics, for recycling. The companies pay only for those items of packaging they put on to the Estonian market.
Recovery fees 2007
|
Sales packaging |
|
EURO/kg |
|
Glass and ceramics |
|
0,1 |
|
Paper and carton, including beverage carton (for milk) |
|
0,11 |
|
Beverage carton |
|
0,41 |
|
Plastic |
|
0,41 |
|
Metal |
|
0,26 |
|
Wood |
|
0,04 |
|
|
|
|
|
Transport and group packaging |
|
|
|
Paper, carton, corrugated board |
|
0,11 |
|
Plastic |
|
0,12 |
|
Metal |
|
0,13 |
|
Wood |
|
0,04 |
|
|
|
|
ERO pays compensation for the packaging collected by the client himself. Compensation depends on collection, sorting and transportation costs and positive/negative value of material collected.
