Mandatory deposit on containers in Germany

The Bundesrat (upper house of German parliament) recently voted in favor of extending the mandatory deposit on containers to cover all non-returnable plastic bottles and beverage cans. This is good news for the protection of the environment. Besides yielding a higher quota of returns, a high recycling rate positively impacts the eco-balance of beverage packaging. However, implementing this would present a lot of juice producers with several challenges. Their problem is that most plastic bottles filled with sensitive products such as juice cannot be collected by type and recycled to make new bottles due to the composition of their materials. Barrier technologies already established on the market provide an answer here; these protect the liquid food from the gas exchange with the help of a wafer-thin layer of chemically pure glass. Dortmund manufacturer of filling and packaging systems KHS is a pioneer in this field. Since 2002 the corporate group has provided a glass coating technology that enables full bottle-to-bottle recycling under the name of FreshSafe PET. Nature MultiPack is a container system that holds…

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