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44,000 tons of packaging material could be saved if oversized packaging and unnecessary additional packaging were avoided. This is the result of a study conducted by GVM and the IFEU Institute and was recently published by the Federation of German Consumer Organizations. The report of the study can be downloaded here.
41.8% of the beverages consumed in Germany in 2019 were filled in reusable packaging. That is 0.6 percentage points higher than in the previous year. The full report is available for download from the German Environment Agency UBA. You can read more information in the GVM-Focus: Reusable Rate 2019.
Beverage cans are very popular on the market. In 2019, 4.5 billion units of beverage cans were brought into circulation in Germany. Their recycling rate is extraordinarily high: aluminum beverage cans reach a recycling rate of 99.3%, while tinplate beverage cans of 99.7%. Among the garbage that was carelessly thrown into the environment, beverage cans […]
At the online events “Circular Economy Info Series” of IK – Industrieverband Kunststoffverpackungen e.V. (German Association of Plastics Packaging Industry) and “VVD meets Freisinger Tage” of Fraunhofer IVV, GVM presents the results of a new study on the potential of replacing plastic packaging with paper-based composites. In the study on behalf of IK, substitution analysis […]
The table tennis club Biebrich can also count on GVM’s support in 2021. “Social cohesion lives in the local sports clubs,” says GVM’s Managing Director Kurt Schüler. “Young people of all origins find orientation and experience companionship there. Same as previous years, we would like to keep supporting that.”
