Valipac started up in 1997 as an initiative of the Belgian business world to provide a collective response to the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme in the field of industrial packaging.

During the past 20 years we have helped raise the recycling rate of industrial packaging from 74% to 91.5%, all the while keeping fees stable for our clients.

Our participative model is based on dialogue between the different stakeholders: our decision-making bodies include professional federations, companies and employer organisations.

Valipac offers a collective response to Extended Producer Responsibility as follows :

• we compile the figures on the quantities of industrial packaging brought to the Belgian market by our clients
• we collect the figures sent in by waste management companies on the quantities of packaging waste collected and recycled by them
• we compile these figures in order to calculate the overall recycling rate for all our clients together
• we report the aggregated data to the Interregional Packaging Commission (IVCIE).

Valipac is the accredited compliance organisation for industrial packaging. For household packaging, you must apply to Fost Plus, which is the accredited organisation in this field. Businesses that bring BOTH household AND industrial packaging to the Belgian market must therefore become clients of both organisations.