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Up to 93.7% of PET beverage bottles are recycled. This is the result of a study conducted by GVM on behalf of Forum PET of the German Association for Plastic Packaging Industry (Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V.). The study is the first to combine the available data material and the underlying expertise on the recycling of PET […]
We mourn the death of our company founder Dr. Gerhard Eisenblätter, who passed away on December 11, 2015 at the age of 76. Dr. Eisenblätter, who holds a doctorate in history, started his professional career at the market research institute DIVO-INMAR. In 1977, Dr. Eisenblätter founded GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung, where he worked as managing […]
Taking into account all collection and recycling methods, the recycling rate is 99.6% for tinplate beverage cans and 98.9% for aluminum beverage cans. This is the central result of a GVM’s study on the recycling of beverage cans subject to a deposit. Clients of the study were DAVR GmbH, Forum Flaschen-Box GbR and ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein […]
At the 2nd IK Sustainability Day on June 24th in Bad Homburg, GVM’s Managing Director Kurt Schüler presented the results of a study for BKV GmbH in a specialist presentation.
Gerolsteiner Brunnen commissioned H.J. Garvens to provide a critical review in which beverage packaging life cycle assessment implemented by the IFEU Institute. GVM’s area of responsibility included examining the selection of the packaging systems that were took into consideration. In addition, the data and models for distribution and number of trips/ rotations were checked. The […]
