Last checked: 14 October 2026 — the date every statement on this page was checked against the sources below.
Three layers. CONAI's joining share, €5.16 once. CONAI's contribution per kilo by material — €0.045/kg for mono-material cardboard, €0.051–0.922/kg for plastic from 1 October 2026. And the representative's fee, which is the only part providers compete on: published prices run from our €199 to about €790 a year. Sources (3)CONAICONAI — Contributo Ambientale, valori 2026CoreplaCorepla — new CONAI plastic contribution from 1 October 2026 (25 May 2026)EPR RatesEPR Rates — Amazon pay-on-behalf vs provider vs doing it yourself (checked 1 Sep 2026)
Layer 1: CONAI's joining share
€5.16, paid once when you join.
Layer 2: the environmental contribution
Per tonne, by material, published by CONAI. The spread is wide: plastic in band C costs more than twenty times mono-material cardboard. See every rate.
| Packaging a year | Contribution |
|---|---|
| 50 kg of cardboard | about €2.25 |
| 200 kg of cardboard and 20 kg of plastic at the highest band (C) | about €9 + €18 = €27 |
| 1 tonne of cardboard | €45 |
Layer 3: the representative
What providers charge to be your Italian address and representative and to file for you. Published prices, read on 14 October 2026, are in the provider price dataset. Two things to watch: an allowance of a few hundred kilos included in the fee, and entry prices limited to Amazon.
Putting it together
A small seller shipping 200 kg of cardboard and 20 kg of plastic a year through Amazon.it pays, with us, €199 + €5.16 once + about €27 in contribution in the first year. Amazon's Pay on Behalf, if you also keep it, charges €25 per category per year on top of the contribution for the units it covers.
We are not lawyers. Where Italian practice is unsettled, this is our reading of the rules, not legal advice.
Sources
Every claim above comes from one of these. Primary law and the competent authority first; no provider marketing pages.
- CONAI — Contributo Ambientale, valori 2026 — read 2026-10-14
- Corepla — new CONAI plastic contribution from 1 October 2026 (25 May 2026) — read 2026-10-14
- CONAI — Guida all'adesione e all'applicazione del Contributo Ambientale 2026 (PDF) — read 2026-10-14
- EPR Rates — Amazon pay-on-behalf vs provider vs doing it yourself (checked 1 Sep 2026) — read 2026-10-14
- ECOPV-EU — Packaging Italy — read 2026-10-14
- Pakkausvastuu — Italy packaging EPR — read 2026-10-14
- epritalia.com — prezzi — read 2026-10-14
Razvan Toma is the founder of EPR Italy Rep, and of EPR France Rep, EPR Germany Rep and EPR Spain Rep. Every page here is written from CONAI, the law or the marketplace's own page, never from another provider's marketing.
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