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At the 28th Kassel Waste and Bioenergy Forum from April 11th to April 13th, 2016, GVM’s Managing Director Kurt Schüler gave a presentation on the subject of “Packaging and non-packaging of similar material in Germany – consumption volume, recycling and current trends”. The presentation is also part of the newly published book “Bio and secondary […]
In an interview with Horst Wenzel from the food magazine LZ – Lebensmittelzeitung (issue 11/2016), GVM’s Managing Director Kurt Schüler discusses the sense and nonsense of regulatory levies on coffee capsules. The verdict is unequivocal: Instead of constantly pillorying new alleged environmental sinners, it is more important to further develop the packaging ordinance into a […]
The final report published by the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) documents the scientific background and the derivation of minimum requirements for life cycle assessments for beverage packaging. This should help to harmonize both the implementation and the assessment of such life cycle assessments based on their environmental impact profiles. The requirements apply above all […]
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 […]
