US EditionOfficial Figures: Germany Recycles Well - but It Works Better
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In Germany, five out of eight recycling requirements were achieved in 2024. This is reflected in a balance sheet presented by the Federal Environment Agency and the Central Packaging Register in Dessau. Successes were recorded in the recycling of plastic packaging, but glass recycling was problematic.
Cardboard, canned container, plastic bottle: With many packagings, recycling always works better, as new figures show. But glass, beverage cartons and composite packaging remain a problem. By Janina Schreiber.
Germany likes to be a recycling model student. Rightly? In some waste categories, it actually looks good, as government figures show. In other categories, however, the shoe expresses.
In 2024, the amount of packaging waste increased slightly. The Federal Environment Agency explains how much of the lightweight packaging is actually recycled.
Germany likes to see itself as a model student when it comes to recycling. Is this justified? In some waste categories, things actually look good, as official figures show.
In a mechanical way, the consumer citizen has become accustomed to using all kinds of packaging and, in the same involuntary way, to empty it and to discard it. It is a daily gesture, repeated and multiplied, that exponentially grows in the homes of the whole planet. Fortunately, domestic recycling exists and more and more families [...]
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