General Information

General Information

About FTI – the Packaging and Newspaper Collecting Service

FTI (Förpacknings- och Tidningsinsamlingen) is a company in the recycling industry that is responsible for ensuring that packaging and newspapers in Sweden are collected and recycled.
 
We are responsible for the 5 800 recycling stations around the country where people can leave their used packaging and newspapers. The collection system is financed inter alia by packaging fees paid by the producers that import, fill, package and sell the products.

Packing fees are administered by REPA, which is part of FTI. Operations are conducted without profit and no economic dividends to the owners may be allowed under the company's charter.

Our business is based on government regulations on producer responsibility for packaging and newspapers. The producer responsibility is a standard that has been created to develop an environmentally sustainable society for the future.

The visionary scenario is a circuit adapted society where most of what is currently regarded as waste will be useful as some kind of new resource. The principal method adopted by Parliament in 1993 for this work is to put environmental responsibility on the producer of a product. Producers shall be obliged to take care of the goods even after the consumer end use.

Owners of FTI are the four materials companies Plastkretsen, MetallKretsen, Returkartong and Pressretur. There is also Svensk GlasÅtervinning with an agreed collaboration. The FTI's and materials companies' boards include representatives from the packaging and newspaper industry, commerce and trade associations.

Our head-office is in Stockholm, but some of our staff is also located in other parts of Sweden.

REPA – part of the FTI

In autumn 2007, the REPA's business became a part of FTI. Today REPA is a subsidiary of FTI and the brand to the companies subject to producer responsibility for packaging, plastics, metal, and paper.

REPA's mission is to offer all companies access to the nationwide recycling system for packaging. Individual companies are invited to join the REPA. By paying packaging fees to REPA the companies fulfill their responsibility as producers. The fees fund the management of collection points where consumers can leave their packaging for recycling. Find out more on the REPA website.