Packaging Wastes - Overview - Statistics
Packaging is part of our everyday life. It serves a variety of purposes, such as safe delivery of products (transport packaging), enclosing and protecting products (sales packaging) and sometimes product presentation (secondary packaging). Packaging consists mainly of glass, paper, paperboard and cardboard, plastics, tinplate, aluminium and wood - valuable (secondary) raw materials. The re-use of the material or its recycling helps to conserve natural sources of raw materials.
In order to counteract the steadily growing quantity of packaging, Germany enacted the "Packaging Ordinance" in 1991. It was amended in 1998. This ordinance created the first comprehensive set of provisions designed to bring about closed substance cycles and to implement product responsibility. Thus the responsibility of producers and distributors for their product was extended to cover its entire lifetime from manufacture to environmentally sound disposal.
This duty was imposed on producers and distributors by laying down requirements for acceptance and reuse/recycling of returned products.
In order to simplify the regulations concerning one way drinks packaging a new packaging ordinance came into force in May 2005.
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Total packaging Consumption, recovery, quota 1991 to 2009 |
| Source: Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH (GVM), 2011 |
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Sales packaging - consumption, recycling, quotas 1991 to 2005 |
| Source: Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH (GVM), Recyclingbilanz, November 2007 |
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Consumption and recycling of sales packaging |
| Source: Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH (GVM), Recyclingbilanz, November 2007 |
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Share of reusable packaging in drinks consumption, 1991 - 2009 |
| Source: Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH (GVM), 2011 |
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Share of drinks filled in reusable drinks packaging and ecologically advantageous disposable drinks packaging, 2004 - 2009 |
| Source: Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH (GVM), 2011 |
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