08/2015: Beverage cans are almost completely recycled
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 […]
06/2015: “More benefits – Less material: Increased efficiency in plastic packaging”
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.
02/2015: GVM provided experts for the critical review of a beverage packaging life cycle assessment for the first time
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 […]
12/2014: Public closing event for the UBA’s study “Minimum requirements for the development of life cycle assessments for beverage packaging”
After more than three years of processing, the results of the study were presented to the expert audience on December 8th, 2014 in Dessau. The new minimum requirements and quality criteria are directed to the development of beverage life cycle assessments that will be submitted to the German Fereral Environment Agency (UBA) in the future. […]
11/2014: 10th Anniversary of IPI International Packaging Institute
On the occasion of the tenth IPI anniversary celebration on November 19, 2014 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, GVM market researcher Anke Leighty spoke about the future of the global packaging markets: The packaging market – future impacts on packaging consumption.