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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.
In an article for the well-known specialist magazine Müll und Abfall, GVM once again sheds light on the topic of market-related challenges in packaging design. The topic already interested listeners last October at the Future Resources symposium organized by Interseroh and the German Packaging Institute (DVI). The article appears in issue 2-18 of Garbage and […]
