Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) — household packaging and commercial and industrial packaging in Austria
Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) publishes 22 rate rows for household packaging and commercial and industrial packaging in Austria for 2026; its base rate for Glass is 0.108 EUR/kg. Last verified 2026-09-16
What this scheme is
Household packaging
Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) — Licensed collection and recovery system for household packaging under the Austrian Waste Management Act (AWG 2002); one of several licensed competing systems, its tariff is not a statutory rate.
Declaration basis: EUR per kg, excl. VAT, by official ARA tariff category. Official site: ara.at ↗. Official rates page: ara.at ↗.
Commercial and industrial packaging
ARA — Licensed collection and recovery system for commercial packaging; one of several competing systems (ARA, Interzero, Reclay, ERP).
Declaration basis: EUR per kg, excl. VAT, by commercial tariff category (2.xx.x). Official site: ara.at ↗. Official rates page: ara.at ↗.
What it covers, and where the rows are on this site
| Stream | Year | Rows | Full schedule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household packaging | 2025 | 11 | /austria/2025/ |
| Household packaging | 2026 | 11 | /austria/2026/ |
| Commercial and industrial packaging | 2025 | 11 | /austria/2025/#commercial |
| Commercial and industrial packaging | 2026 | 11 | /austria/2026/#commercial |
Only years with a page on this site are listed. A year this library holds but does not publish free of charge is not shown here and no figure from it appears on this page.
Representative rates
One row per material category — the same rows the cross-country comparison table uses. The complete schedule, with every category, band, bonus and malus, stays on the country rate page linked above each block.
| Material category | Official code | Rate as published | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Glass | 0.108 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Paper and cardboard Paper | 0.208 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Beverage cartons Beverage cartons | 1.02 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Steel Ferrous metal | 0.45 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Aluminium Aluminium | 0.48 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Rigid plastic Plastic | 1.04 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Other plastics and composites Other composite materials | 1.14 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Wood Wood | 0.02 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 | |
| Other materials Textile fibres | 0.2 EUR/kg | ara.at ↗ market price, not statutory | 2026-09-16 |
What it costs before the first kilogram
This scheme is the one the rule library names for this country:
We could not obtain an official registration fee for Austria at a source we could read logged out on 2026-09-04. Not obtained means we did not find one, not that there is none — ask the authority before you budget. On the published tariff of Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) — the scheme whose rates this site holds for Austria — the lowest amount is €90 a year. It applies under the conditions stated in the source below, which is the page we read it from. Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) is one of the licensed schemes in Austria; the others' figures may differ. A third fixed cost is an authorised representative, where one is required. For Austria this library records: Settled — a representative is required; the representative question above has the detail. The price of a representative is commercial, quoted per provider, and no official source publishes it, so this library holds no figure for it. None of the above is the per-kilogram fee: that one is on the rate page and in the calculator.
- Registration fee: read 2026-09-04 · no source we could read
- Scheme minimum: ara.at ↗, read 2026-09-04 · official source
Where to go next
Provenance
Sources behind the rate rows
- https://www.ara.at/uploads/Dokumente/Tarifbl%C3%A4tter/ARA-tariff-rates-2026.pdf
read 2026-09-16 · market price, not statutory · sha256 d386b30af38d
This scheme's own pages — Addresses as recorded in this library's scheme entry. The read date behind every figure on this page is on the source that figure came from.
How to cite
EPR Rates (2026). Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) — household packaging and commercial and industrial packaging in Austria. https://eprrates.com/schemes/ara/ · Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0.
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title = {Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) — household packaging and commercial and industrial packaging in Austria},
author = {{EPR Rates}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprrates.com/schemes/ara/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0}
}
Rate figures are extracted from the official publications listed under Sources; those source documents remain under their publishers' terms.