Germany: Bundesrat demands 50 per cent plastics recycling target

摘要

Germany's upper house of Parliament, the Bundesrat, has called for Germany to set a 50 per cent plastics recycling target, saying that the current 36 per cent, and 22.5 per cent plastics packaging recycling target under the EU packaging and packaging waste directive,is far too low. Germany's plastics recovery target is 60 per cent -and of this 60 per cent must be mechanical recycling - meaning that the national recycling target is 36 per cent. In 2012, the achieved recycling quota was 53.9 per cent for plastic packaging (for 'private consumers', source: GVM - the German Society for Packaging Market Research).