Spain plastic fee rate: 2027, rate, rank and the same material elsewhere

plastic in everyday words

Schedules name packaging in the scheme's own terms, which are not the words a producer uses. The table below matches the plastic class to the plain-language names Instica uses in its category picker, taken from the CalRecycle 2026-01-01 category list, with the recycling rate that list gives.

31 categories of this class are shown. A match here is a pointer toward the right row of the fee schedule, not a classification: the scheme decides which of its categories a pack belongs to.

People also look for this material as air pillow, bag, bubble wrap, cap, clamshell, closure, cup, dropper, film or foam. Each of these words points to one or more of the categories above.

What 1,000 units of plastic packaging cost

The table prices 1,000 units of a typical pack that contains plastic, using Instica's packaging templates. The material in the pack is weighed in grams, converted to tonnes, and multiplied by the Spain 2027 group mean of 553.29 EUR per tonne. Other components of the pack are not priced here.

The fee at different weights

The fee is proportional to weight, so the table scales the group mean of 553.29 EUR per tonne to a range of weights. It is arithmetic, not a quote: your own categories and their rates replace the mean in a real estimate.

Lower-priced material groups in this schedule

8 material groups in the Spain 2027 schedule have a lower mean rate than plastic. The table shows them with the difference from this group. A lower rate is only one input: function, shelf life, protection of the product and what the local system can recycle decide whether a switch is possible.

Instica reports the published rates. It does not advise a producer to change material.

Recyclability grade under the EU packaging regulation

The EU packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR) introduces recyclability performance grades for packaging. Spain is covered by it, so the grade of a plastic pack will matter for the fee once the grading rules apply.

A grade for plastic is not yet published in Instica's data. The reason, as the record gives it: Annex II Table 3 states the grades and a 70 % non-compliance floor but the weighting per criterion is set by the Article 6(4) delegated act, which is not verified as published in this data set. Instica therefore shows no grade and does not estimate one.

How to use this page

A rate is the price of one unit of packaging in one category. For plastic in Spain, the unit is EUR per kilogram: multiply the weight of your plastic packaging, in that unit, by the rate of the category it falls under. The categories of this group are in the first table, with the code Ecoembes / Ecovidrio uses for them.

Choose the category by what the packaging is and how it is used, as the scheme defines it, not by the material alone. The 14 categories of this group differ in format, in use or in the way the scheme modulates the fee, which is why their rates differ.

Use the converted column only to compare. When you estimate a fee, work in the unit of the source so that a rounding or conversion step cannot enter the result. The EUR figures are not adjusted for inflation or exchange rates; a rate changes only when the publisher issues a new schedule.

A page like this one answers a narrow question: what does this schedule charge for one kind of packaging material? It cannot tell you which category your product falls into, because that depends on the pack, the way it is sold and the definitions of the scheme. For that, read the scheme's own guidance, which the source links point to, or ask the scheme.

The mean, the rank and the comparison with other jurisdictions are computed by Instica from the published rates and are labelled as calculated facts. The rates themselves are the publisher's.

Questions and answers

How Instica uses these rates

When you add plastic packaging for Spain, Instica looks up the category in this 2027 schedule, multiplies the rate by the weight you measured and shows the estimated fee with the rate, the source and the data-quality tier of the weight.

The figures on this page come from the same data as the rest of Instica, so an estimate you prepare in the app and the numbers you read here cannot disagree. If a rate on this page is later revised by the publisher, the page and the estimate are both rebuilt from the new source, and the retrieval date shown above changes with them.

Instica measures, estimates and prepares. You review the figures, sign the report and submit it yourself in the scheme's portal. Instica does not submit for you and never stores portal credentials.

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