I want to recycle my old mattress
I produce or import mattresses
- Joining Valumat
- What is extended producer responsibility?
- How can Valumat help me?
- Annual declaration
- I have a question
- Legislation
I sell mattresses
- List of recycling centres and Valumat collectors
- Use Valumat collectors and recognized recycling centres
- List of retailers
- Voluntary collection
- I want to become a collection point
- Communication material
- I have a question ...
I operate a collective facility
- Who is considered to be the operator of a collective facility?
- Financial incentive
- I have a question ...
FAQ
- I am a consumer. Where can I hand in my old mattress?
- I am a consumer. Can I take my old mattress to the recycling centre?
- Am I a producer?
- Am I an importer?
- I am a foreign producer and I sell mattresses in Belgium. What should I do?
- What are the contributions?
- Why should I join Valumat?
- How do I join Valumat?
- Can I join Valumat retroactively at a later date?
- Which companies are also affiliated with Valumat?
- How do I make my annual declaration?
- What are the environmental contributions for?
- Do I have to join Valumat to comply with the take-back obligation?
- Where can I find the regulations on the take-back obligation?
- When does Valumat invoice the environmental contributions?
- Do I have to pass on the environmental contributions to my customers?
- How will the contribution be accounted for and how will it be included in the VAT return?
- Does the take-back obligation mean that I have to take back mattresses from my customers?
- What happens if I do take back mattresses from my customers?
- Do I get compensation when I take back old mattresses from my customers?
- How do I become a collection point?
- How do I find an homologated Valumat collector or an approved reuse centre?
- I am a professional user. Can I return my old mattress to the recycling centre?
- How do I refer my customers to the recycling centre?
- How do I inform my customers that I am a collection point?
- I am a professional user. Where can I hand in my old mattress?
- I am a mattress seller and would like to know all about the compensation I will receive when I take back old mattresses.
- I am a professional user. Do I get a compensation if I have old mattresses collected?
- I am a professional manager of a facility and would like to know all about the compensation I receive when I have old mattresses collected.
- I import my new mattresses myself, to whom do I pay the environmental contribution?
- What guarantees does the Valumat system offer?
- I produce or import mattresses and sell them to my customer wholesaler, who in turn exports them. Do I have to pay a contribution to Valumat for this?
- I export mattresses produced or imported by myself. Do I have to pay a contribution to Valumat for this?
- Are the participants' declarations audited? What about declarations made on their honour?
- As a producer, do I also have to pay an environmental contribution for mattresses that are delivered free of charge to a showroom or that are sold through outlets or to staff?
- I buy mattresses that I bring out under my name on the Belgian market. (Private label). Can I ask my supplier to take over my administrative obligations towards Valumat?
- What is the difference between an environmental contribution and a tax?
- If a foreign retailer delivers to a Belgian consumer, under which EPR does that sale fall, the Belgian or the foreign one?
- What about old slatted frames, box springs, cots. Are there rules about these too?
- Is it true that we are not obliged to state in our catalogue that the Valumat contribution is included?
- When do retailers/importers (B2C) on the one hand and on the other hand producers/importers (B2B) charge the Valumat contribution?
- As a producer, can I get compensation if I collect discarded mattresses from my customers?
- When must I repay the environmental contribution to my customer?
- What about environmental contributions and discounts?
- What about the contribution on sofa beds?
- I am selling a box-spring bed with 2 mattresses and a topper. How much is the contribution?
- I sell covers and cores separately. Do I have to pay a contribution for these?
- How can I integrate Valumat contributions into my ERP package?
- Eco-modulation of the environmental contributions
- Which EBL001 code should be added for Valumat in my EDI system?
- Do you use recommended retail prices?
About Valumat
- Mission and vision
- Statutes Valumat
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- Design for circularity
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