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Weggooiwijzer: a routing logo that refuses to certify recycling
Status
Voluntary and free. The Disposal Guide (Weggooiwijzer) is a KIDV symbol set, requested via Verpact, that tells the consumer which Dutch waste category a packaging component belongs to. KIDV’s own sentence is the legal character of the mark: correct disposal offers no guarantee that the packaging can be sorted or fully recycled. The logos are not a recyclability claim, not a deposit mark, and not the forthcoming Union composition label.
geen garantie … gesorteerd of (volledig) gerecycledPrescribed or scheme wording — not production artwork
Weggooiwijzer ≠ statiegeldPrescribed or scheme wording — not production artwork
Wording lock-ups and sourced marks are for identification and commentary. They are not production artwork.
Role and legal character
KIDV, the Netherlands Institute for Sustainable Packaging, publishes the Disposal Guide. The English page describes a series of symbols on packaging that indicate which category the components belong to, “showing customers how to properly dispose of the packaging at a glance.” The Dutch page is more precise about the claim the symbols do not make: “Het correct afdanken biedt geen garantie of de verpakking al dan niet kan worden gesorteerd of (volledig) gerecycled.” Correct discard is not a sorting guarantee and not a recycling guarantee.
Use is voluntary and free. The trademark owner — not an agency or a printer — requests the official pictograms. As of the current KIDV page, the request runs through Verpact. A 2025 revision published a complete new set of logos. Those files, not a redraw, are the artwork. This library does not reconstruct them. No millimetre table is stated on the public KIDV pages retrieved for this article.
What the logos assert
A Weggooiwijzer logo names a Dutch waste category for a component. It is closer to Nordic Eupicto and to Fost Plus stream logos than to OPRL’s Recycle / Do Not Recycle. The difference from Fost Plus is the published disclaimer: the Dutch scheme states, on the operator’s own page, that the route is not the outcome. A pack can be correctly shown as going into a stream that then fails to recycle it, and the logo remains what KIDV says it is.
That is why the logo is a poor dual-market companion for a How2Recycle “Widely Recyclable” lock-up or an OPRL Recycle. The Dutch symbol does not assert the access or collection-count tests those schemes encode. Printing it next to an English recyclability verb invites the reader to treat a route as a verdict. EmpCo’s generic-claims blacklist, from 27 September 2026, is the Union overlay on any accompanying adjective; the logo itself, used as KIDV describes it, is a disposal instruction.
Deposit marks are a different file
Covered plastic bottles and cans in the Netherlands must carry a clear and indelible deposit indication, implemented through the national logos and barcode. That duty is in the Netherlands country report and in the deposit gallery. Weggooiwijzer does not satisfy it. A deposit logo does not satisfy Weggooiwijzer, which in any event is not a duty. Dual-market Benelux artwork that tries to let one drawing do Fost Plus PMD, Dutch PMD and Dutch statiegeld is three legal objects on one surface.
PPWR
KIDV’s retrieved pages do not, on this pass, call Weggooiwijzer a placeholder for the Union label. This article therefore does not. The Netherlands is a Member State. PPWR Article 12’s harmonised composition and receptacle labels will apply on the later-of formula. When they do, a national routing logo that contradicts the Union pictogram is a different problem from today’s voluntary use. Until the implementing act exists, the Union date is a formula, not a printer’s retirement date for Weggooiwijzer.
Traps
The first trap is reading the logo as “recyclable in the Netherlands.” KIDV forbids that reading. The second is an agency applying the symbols without the trademark owner’s request. The third is using a 2024 logo after the 2025 set replaced it. The fourth is dropping the Dutch deposit mark because a Weggooiwijzer block is on the back.
Primary sources
KIDV. Weggooiwijzer (Dutch): 2025 logo set; disclaimer that correct discard is not a sorting or recycling guarantee; request via Verpact. Open source
KIDV. Information on packaging (English): Disposal guide as component-category symbols. Open source
KIDV / Verpact. Logo request (as linked from KIDV). Open source
Note on sources and verification
The Dutch disclaimer is quoted from the KIDV Weggooiwijzer page as retrieved. No millimetre specification was located on that page. This article does not attribute a PPWR-placeholder claim to KIDV, because the retrieved pages do not make one. Last verified: 23 August 2026.