Fee modulation
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Barrier
A barrier can be formed by adding components to packaging materials, such as a coating, laminate, or blended into pulp or granulate. This can create a barrier against external influences, such as mois ...
Carbon black
Carbon black is a finely divided black pigment composed of elemental carbon. It is used as a deep black color or to increase the color intensity of a pigment mixture. It provides UV protection in appl ...
Coating
A coating is an addition to the surface of a material layer. Characteristics:Usually has a thickness of a few nanometers (nm = 10⁻⁹ m).Does not form an independent material layer.Often used as a ...
Contactsensitive (disposable unit)
Contact sensitive refers to materials suitable for direct food contact (humans and animals), for products for skin contact (cosmetics), and for the packaging of hazardous substances.
Degree of coverage
The percentage of the main component covered by a label or sleeve, which determines whether the NIR scanner can still correctly identify the main component's material.The degree of coverage is determi ...
Disposable unit
Most packaging is discarded in its entirety after use and is, therefore, considered a single disposable unit. Packaging that is not discarded in its entirety but as several separate componen ...
Disruptive Substance
A substance that disrupts the sorting and recycling process and/or the quality of recycled materials. These substances negatively impact more than just their own packaging. Some examples of disruptive ...
Flexible Packaging (plastic)
Unlike rigid plastic packaging, flexible plastic packaging can be easily formed into a plug without much force. The material of the main component is usually thinner than 100 µm. This type of packagin ...
Good recyclable packaging
Packaging that has been assessed using the Recycle Check, and where all details of the packaging are optimally suited for recycling. This makes it "good recyclable" according to the definition of recy ...
In-Mould Label (IML)
A label that is applied in the mold and fuses with the packaging, usually used in injection molding, blow molding, or thermoforming of packaging.
Mass Balance
A mass balance describes all inputs and outputs of a system or installation. The total input must correspond to the total output. For packaging waste subjected to chemical recycling, the recycled amou ...
Material layer
A material layer is a separate layer within a plastic package consisting of a single primary material or polymer. This layer:Usually has a thickness of more than 1 micrometer (1µm = 10⁻⁶ m).Is applied ...
Mono-material
Mono-materials are materials that consist of a single material type.ExampleA mono-material can be a single layer of a particular polymer, or multiple layers of the same polymer (for example, two outer ...
NIR Scanner (Near‑Infrared)
In the recycling industry, NIR scanners (Near-Infrared scanners) are widely used for the automated sorting of materials.A NIR scanner is an optical measuring instrument that uses near-infrared light ( ...
Obligation to contribute
The contribution obligation relates to the Waste Management Contribution for Packaging. The following frameworks apply:Are you a producer and/or an importer and do you release in excess of 50,000 kilo ...
Polymer
Polymer is a large molecule, synthetic or natural, characterized by the sequence of one or more types of monomer units which are covalently bound to each other. The specific composition of the monomer ...
Post‑Consumer Recyclate (PCR)
Post-consumer recyclate consists of used packaging that has fulfilled its role, been discarded, and processed in standard waste systems. “Consumers” include households and out‑of‑home users (businesse ...
Printing
There are several printing methods, in which dyes are used to apply an imprint to a material. The choice of printing technique depends on the type of material and the intended application of the packa ...
Producer or Importer of Packaged Products
From 1 January 2023 to present:Producer or importer: any natural or legal person established in the Netherlands who:places products in packaging on the market;professionally imports products in packag ...
Recyclate
The output of a completed recycling process that can be used directly to make intermediates or end products. There are two types of recycled material streams: Post-industrial recyclate Post- ...
Sub-components
In addition to a main component, a disposable unit often also consists of sub-components. These are additional parts, such as labels and closures, which are processed together with the main component ...
Target material
The target material is the material that ultimately needs to be recycled into a new raw material. Usually, this is the most common material in the disposable unit, often the material of the main compo ...
Washable inks
Inks that release from the printed material, but do not dissolve in water, allowing them to be filtered from the water.
Waste management fee
Contribution to the costs of waste management. Verpact uses the waste management contribution to cover the costs incurred in the collection and recycling of packaging. The Packaging Waste Management F ...