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GVM project manager Nicolas Cayé gave a presentation at the Wiegand Group on the bottleneck of PET recyclates in 2025 and beyond. The presentation focussed on the forecast for the supply of rPET and the demand for rPET for food applications. The presentation explored whether enough food-grade rPET will be available to meet the challenging […]
A debate in which GVM Managing Director Kurt Schüler took part was published in issue 38/2023 of Lebensmittelzeitung. The topics were the relevance of waste and the circularity and climate friendliness of packaging. Particular attention was paid to the limits of the use of recyclate in plastic food packaging.
The Federal Environment Agency has published the first part of a study in which GVM was involved. The aim of the study was to develop economic instruments that can be used to reduce the consumption of plastic packaging and strengthen the recycling of plastic packaging at national level against the background of the EU own […]
The German Association of the Corrugated Board Industry (VdW) published GVM’s study on the effect of a mandatory share of reusable transport packaging on corrugated cardboard packaging. The estimation was based on the reuse targets required in the EU-Commission’s proposal for Packaging and Packaging Regulation from November 2022. Here are the links to the full […]
At the AGVU Orientation Day in June 2023, GVM’s Managing Director Kurt Schüler gave a presentation on the contributing role of packaging on the climate neutrality target for 2045. Mr. Schüler revealed the results of a study carried out by GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung and the ifeu‐Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg GmbH on […]
