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The proportion of recycled material (or so called recyclate) in plastic packaging is less than 10%. In order to better understand why this is the case, the climate protection campaign in retail commissioned GVM to conduct a study. The results were presented at a parliamentary breakfast in Berlin on April 9th. The study concludes that […]
No nation in Europe produces more packaging waste than the Germans. At least if you believe the Eurostat statistics quoted by the press. In detail, however, there are massive inconsistencies, and the statistics of the individual European countries are only comparable with each other to a limited extent.
Experts from the folding carton and cardboard industry, the plastics industry, the FMCG industry and market research debate the effects of the new packaging law in the packaging focus of the food magazine LZ – Lebensmittelzeitung of September 21, 2018. In it, GVM’s Managing Director Kurt Schüler classifies, among other things, the environmental impact of […]
The German Working Group Packaging and Environment (AGVU) invited to its 15th orientation day in Berlin on 26.6.2018. At this event, results of the study “Benefits of Packaging”, which were developed by GVM in cooperation with denkstatt GmbH from Vienna, were presented.
On behalf of the Central Agency Packaging Register, GVM is developing the basis for a catalog for classifying packaging that is subject to system participation in accordance with Section 3 (8) German Packaging Act.
