|
Economic measures provide basic economic and regulatory guidance to influence the demand and supply for particular packaging materials and/or product groups. They include…
Read more
|
|
Plastic is one of the most used materials for consumer goods, packaging and as building material. The use of plastics in the building sector is greatly influenced by current megatrends: climate…
Read more
|
|
Disposable, single-use packaging is convenient from the perspective of consumers. This holds true, for example, for takeaway food packaging. However, the high amounts of plastic consumed entail…
Read more
|
|
This report is based on a literature review of several LCA studies conducted to analyze the environmental impact of different packaging materials and…
Read more
|
|
Discharges of wastewater from industrial activities represent a global challenge, with developing countries and emerging economies especially vulnerable to their…
Read more
|
|
In an ideal circular economy, no primary resources shall enter production processes, but only recycled material. As a precondition, products must be…
Read more
|
|
Globally, packaging waste has increasingly become an environmental problem. The problem is the large volume, the high resource intensity in production, the low…
Read more
|
|
Could the use of plastic as a raw material for the production of construction material, especially for low-cost housing and shelters, give plastic waste a second life? Several companies and start-…
Read more
|
|
As part of the GIZ global project “Support of the Export Initiative for Green Technologies”, the project module in Jordan “Introduction of an Extended Producer Responsibility system for packaging…
Read more
|
|
GIZ implements projects of the “Export Initiative for Green Technologies” worldwide on behalf of the the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).…
Read more
|