The Green point marks sales packing, either in the yellow bag/in the yellow ton, in waste glass containers or in the waste paper ton disposed and then from binary systems ith S.D. "§ 6 exp. 3 of the packing regulation or on the disposal way of Selbstentsorgern ith S.D. "§ 6 exp. 1 VerpackV to be disposed.

Legal basis

The DSD GmbH ensures since 1990 for the fact that packing of a recycling is supplied. In the meantime several competitors in different Lands of the Federal Republic became as dual system certified. The collection, assortment and utilization happen after defaults of the packing regulation. The packing regulation is part of the under-lowest set of rules of the cycle economic and waste law.

After "§ 6 exp. 1 and 2 of the packing regulation is obligated to manufacturers and Vertreiber from sales packing to it, used remainder-emptied packing of the final consumer at the place of the actual delivery or in its direct proximity to take back free of charge. Of this obligation itself the manufacturer or Vertreiber knows ith S.D by a participation in a binary system. "§ 6 exp. 3 VerpackV release. Such a dual system is operated by the dual system Germany GmbH. Their brand name is the Green point. This may be used due to the decision of the European Union commission from 20 April 2001 also competitors, so that for these a market admission barrier is void. The DSD GmbH was created, in order to avoid the logistic and hygenic problems of a cancelling in the trade, resulting from the cancelling obligation.

In competition to the dual system Germany GmbH the moreover one the of different enterprises stands, with which the final consumer returns the used packing again into the shop and these at Entsorgungsdienstleister for utilization is then given.

The binary systems, as well as the Selbstentsorger, criticize the circumstance that it comes due to a missing control instance to "“Totalverweigerern"”, also "“free riders"” mentioned, who do not let their products lizenzieren. By the saved payment these enterprises attain a substantial competition advantage. The national secretaries of the environment announced to control the normal adherence to the obligations from the packing regulation more strongly.

Function of the binary system

The disposal and/or utilization with their licensed packing carries dual the system Germany GmbH. These packing becomes after use legally "“waste the utilization"”. Dual the system Germany GmbH finances itself over the royalties of the green point, which pay the manufacturing firms and/or on basis of the tare and the number of items set off in Germany. The "“waste for removal"” is what we call colloquially garbage, for that the municipality is responsible and finances themselves with the fees from the local waste statutes.

The DSD GmbH leaves the operational business of the collection and assortment to its disposal partners, this is usually private and local Entsorger. The disposal contracts will assign in the free competition in the context of an advertisement.

The utilization is ensured through warranters so mentioned. Their task is it to supply by dual system Germany collected and sorted sales packing of an arranged utilization. Warranters e.g. are. Representative of the glass or aluminum industry. With plastics became its own society, which German plastic recycling GmbH (Danish Krone) based, which worries about the utilization of the sorted plastic parliamentary groups.

For the utilization the legislator for the individual materials gave ratios, which it applies to fulfill as minimum target. Over these ratios the Departments of the Environment of the countries and/or of them are awake assigned as responsible supervisory authorities. Balance of payments on current account is the mass flow proof in such a way specified, in which the DSD documents its collecting and utilization achievements. Background is that the collected valuable material are not to be deposited or burned simply as before introduction of the packing regulation.

Already soon after the introduction of the system on the one hand its Ineffizienz was criticized, on the other hand the fact that some collections in incineration plants, on garbage depots or abroad to end. In the first years after establishment of the DSD GmbH the recycling capacities for plastic in Germany were not sufficient. Therefore a part of the valuable material was abroad used. The local capacities were however continuously developed, until in the year also in Germany at the utilization arrived to 2000 93 per cent of the plastics collected here, the remainder in European neighboring countries. With the other materials, like glass, waste paper, groups, like e.g. , There were beverage cardboards or metals (aluminum, tinplate) no bottlenecks.

Dual the system Germany GmbH fulfills the legal defaults for years. It since the year 2000 besides a freiwillige environmental success balance is published, which expresses actual savings of primary energy and CO2-Emissionen in concrete numbers. Additionally to the legally prescribed mass flow proof dual the system Germany manufactures so publicly transparency over it as the contribution looks to the resources safety device. Many other countries followed the example of Germany, 1994 came into force an European Union guideline with the principal purpose of the avoidance and decrease of impact on the environment by packing and packing wastes. Point there are collecting systems with the indication of the Greens in the meantime in 24 European countries, even if this partly only in the starting period are.

Marking with becoming green point

The print of the green point on a packing signals that the manufacturer of this packing for their collection, assortment and recycling paid a license payment. Since these costs are naturally a component of the price calculation, they are contained in the purchase price. According to estimations each citizen pays approx. 1.90 "€/Monat for the Green point.

For the consumers the marking with a green point makes a very simple sort assistance possible, which into the collecting containers of the binary systems in-heard and which not.

The symbol of the green point is not green in some cases, but adapts to the color of the packing, in order to save further costs of additional printing inks. It consists of two arrows devoured with one another in circle in different colors. (See German registered mark 2005954.)

Technical procedures

There is approximately 215 sorting equipment alone for light packing. Here beverage cardboards, aluminum, tinplate and plastics are from each other separated. Is sorted according to size of (drum filters) and weight (winnowing machine). Tinplate is gotten automatically by magnet and aluminum by eddy current separators by the volume. For plastics and beverage cardboards there is close infrared technique. Plastics are from each other separated in such a way under co-operation from compressed air nozzles to kinds of plastic.

Into the SORTEC 3,1, which was taken to the EXPO 2000 in Hanover in enterprise, it comes additionally in a wet-mechanical preparation step to a following plastic refinement. The Sortec 3,1 uses to the RWTH Aachen developed procedure for the full-mechanical dressing of kunststoffhaltiger wastes. After the cleaning a plastic agglomerate is won, that in the past in blast furnaces as reducing agent for Metallerze there e.g. served and. Coal dust replaced. However Regranulate for the high-quality material recycling are produced predominantly.

With the plastic there are three forms of the utilization:

During the material utilization packing or products develops again such as profiles, pipes, flower and beverage boxes, new foils, window frameworks and watering cans from the secondary raw materials.

The rawmaterial utilization leads back the plastic into its gaseous output components, which come to the production of methanol or as synthesis gas, for example as replacement of fuel oil in the blast furnace, to the employment. This procedure is used particularly for the utilization by mixing plastics. They consist of different plastic places, which could be separated only under large expenditure.

During the energetic utilization the energetic potentials are used mainly the plastics. Mixing plastics, in addition, sort remainders are improved to secondary fuels, the fossil sources of energy, like oil and gas, in e.g. Replace to lime or coal-fired power stations. Only difference to the classical burn in incineration plants is the primary purpose: Energetic utilization serves the power production (e.g. Generation of current), waste incineration serves above all the removal of the garbage and/or the volume and mass reduction.

Which into the yellow bag may and which not

There is actually only a simple rule, which must be considered: In the yellow bag or the yellow ton belong excluding sales packing. With two exceptions: Glass belonged into the waste glass container, the waste glass collection existed already before the introduction of the packing regulation, and packing of pasteboard (like Cornflakespackungen) or paper belongs to the waste paper. During the paper disposal the costs are divided between binary systems and municipalities. The costs of the packing portion in the waste paper carry the binary systems, the other part of the costs take over the municipalities, which e.g. pay the disposal of printed products. Partly such packings have also the label "“folding box predominantly from recycling material. Folded up I belong to the waste paper"”. Cardboards from group materials (like beverage cardboards of milk) belong into the yellow bag.

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