What happens before and after yellow ton or value recycling-you don’t suspect it. Contracts are closed, waste quantities charged, millions transferred. Around German packaging waste, such a complicated construct has arisen, that a few million euros can disappear without a trace. Without that one knows how this could happen. Only: This time it should have consequences.
How much more than 50 million euro can be missed? This can only be explained by complicated system. Ten companies share market for packaging waste in Germany. They conclude contracts with companies that bring such packaging into market.
Ten companies entrust disposal of registered packaging
This also requires law: those who bring a toothpaste to market in this country, for example, need a “licence” which ensures ir disposal. It must be able to guarantee that tube is also disposed of with yellow barrel or yellow sack. For this, a sum is due, which is pitched on each individual toothpaste. Thus, customer pays for packaging to be picked up and recycled in any form. How much packaging waste is licensed, which holds a register at German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK). So far, so easy.
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The license is obtained from manufacturer at one of ten companies. In turn, y instruct ors to collect packaging waste. Since not every one of ten own trucks can be driven through cities, y share this task. This, in turn, requires that ten costs and revenue be divided among mselves. For this purpose, everyone reports packaging quantities for which he has issued licenses-and n takes over costs of disposal in proportion. For this purpose, ten recycling companies have contracted a clearing house.
210 000 tonnes of packaging are unmastered
Stupid only: The DIHK register was reported in previous year by larger quantities of waste than this clearing house. There is only one explanation for this: Among ten companies, re must be black sheep who have reported smaller quantities to joint clearing house than y actually signed. The incentive to do this is great, because those who report less must also pay less for disposal. The trucks are still driving. 210 000 tonnes of packaging are virtually unmastered, including 90 000 tonnes of so-called lightweight packaging, equivalent to about nine billion empty toothpaste. or cost of a total of 50 million euros.
The system
The “Packaging ordinance” has been in Germany since 1991. The goal was to become rapidly growing mountains Lord. Since n, federal citizens have understood separation of waste, re are yellow sacks and green dots. However, re were always loopholes with which resourceful disposers knew how to exploit system. Since its introduction, regulation has been amended seven times, but packaging waste has not been reduced, but more. From 1 January 2019, regulation is now to be replaced by a “packaging law”. It requires, among or things, higher recycling quotas and provides for a new supervisory authority, “central body”. It’s supposed to complicate abuse. Michael Belly Miller
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Accordingly, re is a great anger and mistrust among ten companies. The differences constituted “a threat to system and distort competition,” says Michael Wiener, head of dual system Deutschland, who licensed products via “Green Dot”. Finally, those who do not report properly can ultimately offer cheaper disposal. “We are strongly committed to ending this fraud.”
