Non-profit, member-owned and organised around one purpose: your EPR obligations
Retur is not a company with shareholders. We are a non-profit organisation owned by our members and organised with one purpose: to make Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) as efficient, correct and cost-effective as possible for the companies that need it.
We are Denmark’s largest family of Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) and operate Elretur, Batteriretur, Emballageretur, Fiskeriretur and Tekstilretur from one shared secretariat with specialised teams and shared systems.
How Retur is organised
Retur acts as the umbrella organisation for our Producer Responsibility Organisations. The structure is designed to ensure both shared economies of scale and close specialist insight into the companies and industries served by each individual scheme.
The organisation is built on three levels:
Retur — has a shared board and a secretariat that operates all schemes. This is where overall strategic and organisational decisions are made, and where shared resources, systems and networks are managed.
The Producer Responsibility Organisations — each have their own board and priorities. They specialise in their respective EPR areas and ensure that the schemes are operated with the right level of specialist expertise and proximity to the legislation in each area.
The sections — are where member democracy takes place in practice. This is where member companies meet, discuss developments and set the environmental fees for the coming year. The sections’ recommendations are reviewed and approved by the boards.
