1. The Dual System Germany - “Der Grüne Punkt“
Solutions for Waste Management in Europe
The Dual System Germany - “Der Grüne Punkt“
Management of plastic household packaging waste in Germany by
Werner Kossmann
GIZ Advisor
ASEM Meeting on “Sustainable Marine Environment: Marine Debris”
3 August 2018, Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao Bangkok, Thailand

2. Decreasing natural resources
The Dual System Germany
Mega Trends increase relevance of plastics packaging recycling
Climate change
Environmental pollution
Decreasing natural resources
World exhaustion day 2017: 2. August
World exhaustion day 2017: 2. August
World population > 9,6 billion by 2050

3. The Dual System Germany (DSD)
Who is responsible for waste?
EPR - Dual Systems: 100 % Cost and Control for household packaging

4. The Dual System Germany
Lightweight packaging ….

5. DerGrünePunkt - Duales System Deutschland GmbH
The Dual System Germany
DerGrünePunkt - Duales System Deutschland GmbH
Established in first Producer Responsibility Organisation for packaging
From Monopoly non-for-profit to competition now market leader
Full-cost, full control of collection, sorting, recycling of household packaging

6. The Dual System Germany

7. The Dual System Germany
The Yellow Bag or Yellow Bin

8. The German System
Lightweight packaging ….

9. The German System
Sorting and Recycling

10. The German System
Lightweight packaging ….
Sorting process

11. Manual quality control
The German System
Manual quality control

12. The Dual System Germany
The Principle of EPR in Germany
Obliged Producers/bottlers
Register their packaging with a compliance scheme
Pay by material and tonnage
Consumers
Pay for recycling via internalized cost of product
Sort their packaging
Save fees for residual waste in PAYT scheme
Waste management
Collects packaging based on tenders
Sorts packaging based on tenders
Recycle/recover materials as demanded by Compliance Schemes

13. The Dual System Germany
Development of waste fraction quantities in Germany
Overall waste from private households:
minus 10 per cent
Residual Waste:
minus 57 per cent
Landfill:
1990: 70 per cent 2014: no landfill
Separate collection and recycling:
3.5 fold increase

14. The Dual System Germany
Higher recycling targets for all materials!
Target for plastics will increase from 36% to 63%!
Material
Target Packaging Ordinance
Target
1 Jan. 2019
1 Jan. 2022
Glass
75 %
80%
90%
Paper, board and cartons
70 %
85%
Ferrous metals
Aluminum
60 %
Beverage carton packages
75%
Other composites
55%
70%
Plastics
Mechanical recycling (plastic)
36 %
58,5%
63%
Review additional increase in the material-specific recovery targets within 3 years after 1 Jan. 2022
Meeting
higher targets
greater
sorting depth
and more
recycling =
Targets are already being achieved today

15. The Dual System Germany
Introduction Video: Der Gruene Punkt

16. THANK YOU The Dual System Germany Werner Kossmann Project Director
Integrated Waste and Wastewater Management for GHG Reduction
Thai-German Climate Programme Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
c/o Pollution Control Department (PCD) 
92 Soi Phahonyothin, Phahonyothin 7, 
Phahonyothin Road, Phayathai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand M E