Activity report
2024
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Message from the Chair and the Director
2025 promises to be a challenging and uncertain year for the Interregional Packaging Commission (IRPC), with new legislation set to have a significant impact on the way our organisation operates.
A series of new obligations and adjustments await us in the wake of the publication on 22 January 2025 of the Packaging Regulation (PPWR), which officially came into force twenty days later and will apply from 12 August 2026. Meanwhile, the forthcoming introduction of the new EPR and Litter Cooperation Agreement will also have an impact on the operation and responsibilities of the IRPC.
TABLE OF CONTENT
1.
- Tasks of the IRPC
- Composition of the IRPC
- EPRIP and EPR and Litter Cooperation Agreement
- PPWR
- 2024 budget of the IRPC
2.
Fost Plus
- Implementation of the new accreditation
- Sorting and recycling
- Sorting plants
- Recycling plants
- Recycling situation in 2023
3.
Valipac
- Results of mapping in 2024
- Audit results
- Overview of
the final recycling destinations
4.
Key figures
- Fost Plus results for 2023
- Valipac results for 2023
- Results of the individual responsible companies in 2023
- Beverage packaging figures
- Overall results for 2023 (Belgian recycling figures)
5.
Additional data on accredited compliance organisations
- Fost Plus reference costs (for collection and sorting) for 2024 and 2025
- Payments to unpackers by Valipac in 2024
- Value of the materials
- Collection, collection cost and collection methods
of household packaging waste
6.
Monitoring of reusable packaging
- Overall trend in reusable household packaging
- Overall trend in reusable industrial and commercial packaging
7.
Waste transit
- Trend in the number of notifications
- Trend in the number of shipments registered
HIGHLIGHTS
PPWR
This Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the PPWR) entered into force on 11 February 2025 and sets out new provisions for preventing and reusing packaging. It largely replaces existing Belgian legislation, specifically the Cooperation Agreement of 4 November 2008 on the prevention and management of packaging waste.
KEY FIGURES
The overall results for Belgium are calculated using a European calculation method, which was completely revised as of 2020.
As from 2020, the IRPC chose to adapt the internal Belgian method used to calculate the results of the accredited compliance organisations Fost Plus and Valipac to incorporate some of the principles of the new European method for calculating the European recycling targets. This is the “new” method for calculating the results of Fost Plus and Valipac.
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Special thanks to Fost Plus, Valipac and Indaver for the images.