Don't get wrapped up

Yes, for restaurants that sell more than 150 take away meals or items per day in single use plastic containers you must:

When offering take-away (for e.g. working with a delivery platform like Wolt):   

• Eliminate the use of all plastic lids, small jars for sauces, AND

• Use paper packaging (that is not lined with plastic) and/OR

• Use an official reusable packaging programme and/OR 

• Allow customers to bring in their own packaging from home

When serving customers in restaurant (dine-in): 

• Use reusable plates, mugs and cutlery, and/OR

• Offer disposable single-use disposable items with a disclaimer that is clearly visible  at the point of sale and explains 1) the possibility of getting the food in a reusable container, 2) the environmental impact that the disposable material creates, and 3) the advantage of choose reusable over single use

If you sell less than 150 meals or items per day in single use containers, you must demonstrate that you have a routine to gradually move away from disposable items.

As a voluntary option for customers, reusable containers will appear in your menu as a unique menu item. This means that customers need to select a reusable container in order to receive it. While we are working on making this process smoother, for now, in order to accept reusable packaging orders, you must have comment fields enabled in your menus.

Your Wolt account managers are well versed in reusable packaging and can help to walk you through the different programmes or offers.

However, the Swedish Ministiry of Environmental Protection can be contacted directly at kundtjanst@naturvardsverket.se and more information about the new packaging regulations are available on the following websites: 

• Producer responsibility for packaging (naturvardsverket.se)

• In-depth support and information for producers of packaging (naturvardsverket.se)