Marking of single-use plastic products
The marking, showing a dead sea turtle with a littered single-use plastic product, must: - Inform about the plastic content, correct disposal of the products, or how to avoid inexpedient disposal, as well as environmental impacts from littering. - Contribute to consumer information in the choice of products or behaviour. - Appear in a visible, legible and indelible form on the product itself or the packaging. Single-use plastic products must be marked with one of the below pictograms and in accordance with the directions no later than 3 July 2021.
Products and marking
Cigarette filters
Tobacco product filters, including filter cigarettes, must be marked with this pictogram.
Download pictograms
Sanitary towels
Sanitary towels (pads), tampons, and tampon applicators must use this pictogram
Wet wipes
Pre-wetted personal care and domestic wipes
Beverage cups
All beverage cups, glasses or containers made partly from plastic
Beverage cups
All beverage cups, glasses or containers made wholly from plastic
Beverage cups
All beverage cups, glasses or containers made wholly from plastic must not be littered.
See specification of rules on marking
The marking rules can be found as an attachment to the Danish Statutory Order.
Single Use Plastic - LegislationDownload files for pictograms
Pictograms are available in all national languages.
EU standard pictogramsDuty of information
Products subject to a duty of marking are also subject to an associated duty of information. This entails that businesses subject to producer responsibility must inform their customers about the impact of littering through standard texts on their products. In addition, the duty of information entails that you co-finance local or national awareness raising measures with the following purposes:
Information about:
- Availability of re-usable alternatives and re-use systems, the most appropriate waste management options available for single-use plastic products, and best practices with regard to sound waste management (e.g. public waste receptacles, pocket ashtrays, etc.)
- Impact of littering and other inappropriate plastic waste disposal on the environment, in particular the marine environment.
- Impact of inappropriate means of waste disposal of single-use plastic products on the sewer network.
The duty of information and cleaning up litter is financed in whole or in part through the annual fee that is paid to the national authority.
Shortcuts
About registration
See how to register as a producer or an importer in the producer register
Read about tobacco filters
Read about cigarette filters and tobacco product filters subject to producer responsibility for single-use plastic products
Read about fishing gear
Read about the producer and cleanup responsibilities for fishing gear
Economy and fees
See current fees for products subject to producer responsibility
Single-use plastic - legislation
See the statutory basis for producer responsibility for tobacco product filters (single-use plastic products)
Single-use plastic - product scoping
See which types of single-use plastic products are in scope and check out the exemptions (scoping).
Single-use plastic - marking
Read more about marking requirements for single-use plastic products
Et skodfrit Danmark (Denmark without cigarette butts)
See campaign from the Ministry of Environment against cigarette filters littering (in Danish)
Packaging
See also producer responsibility for packaging
European registers
Find producer registers in other EU countries