People who have lived in Germany will notice that many packages of German goods are printed with a green dot consisting of two arc-shaped arrows head-to-tail. This is Germany's "green dot" sign, which means recycling.
Germany's commodity economy is highly developed, residents' material life is very rich, and the manufacturing speed of domestic garbage is, of course, rapidly increasing. However, complaints such as the accumulation of rubbish are rarely heard in Germany. This is mainly due to the fact that Germany has a strict and comprehensive set of laws and regulations for the recycling and disposal of waste. The domestic garbage disposal system marked by "Green Point" plays an important role in reducing the generation of domestic garbage and improving the efficiency of garbage recycling.
The rate of industrialized packaging of German goods is extremely high, and even most of the daily foods such as meat, eggs, milk, rice and even fruits and vegetables are commonly used in industrial packaging. This also makes paper, composite cartons, plastic, glass, metal and other packaging waste occupy the vast majority of people's lives. Excluding newspapers, magazines, and other paper waste, the volume ratio of packaging waste to household waste in German homes can reach nine to one.
If so much waste is disposed of by incineration or landfill, it will not only pollute the environment but also cause serious waste of resources. For this reason, Germany published the "Regulations on Packaging" in 1991. For the first time, legal forms require the production and operators of packaging materials to take responsibility for the recycling and use of used packaging. According to this law, the German economic community subsequently established the "Dublin Binary System" association to implement the "Green Point" plan.
The basic principle of this plan is: Whoever produces garbage will have to pay a price for it. According to the regulations, German packaging materials production and operation companies must register with the “Dual German System†Association to pay “Green Point Marking Fees†and obtain the right to mark “Green Point†on their products. The association uses the “green point†fees paid by companies to collect packaging waste, and then cleans, sorts, and recycles it.
To this end, Germany has implemented a strict classification of domestic waste, in addition to the requirement to put cans, beverage boxes, plastic bags, and packaging materials such as metal and plastic in domestic garbage into specialized yellow trash bins, and also set up dedicated dedicated waste newspapers. , Magazine's blue trash cans and brown trash bins that specifically discard organic waste such as leftovers and peels. In some places there are "green barrels" that discard dry branches and leaves. There are also “black barrels†that need to be used to dispose of waste, such as used lamps, batteries, ceramics, etc., as well as garbage bins for discarding glass, but waste glasses also need to be put into different waste glass according to the different colors of glass. Inside the barrel.
In Germany, it is necessary to pay for garbage. However, the yellow trash can not only be rented for free, but it is also regularly cleared for free. This is also an effective measure that Green Point encourages people to minimize the disposal of packaging materials. If consumers do not classify their waste, packaging waste will soon fill up other waste bins, and the number of clean-ups will increase, and consumers will have to pay more for this. On the contrary, the amount of real garbage will be greatly reduced.
According to the regulations, the “green dot logo fee†paid by the company allows the cost of goods to be passed onto consumers. This measure not only encourages consumers to categorize their living garbage, but is also popular among packaging material companies. Marking "green dots" on your own packaging material means that the material can be recycled. This is undoubtedly a very good corporate image propaganda in German society with high environmental protection.
At present, in Germany, there are 16,000 enterprises that produce and manage packaging materials and participate in the “dual systemâ€, and about 90% of the products have “Green Point†signs printed on them. Because the "green dot logo use fee" is linked to the amount of packaging materials used, and the product price is directly related to the company's market competitiveness, which forces product manufacturers to actively think of ways to simplify the packaging and packaging from the source of production Convenient recycling and regeneration of materials create conditions.
This series of effective mechanisms has led to a continuous increase in the recycling rate of packaging materials in Germany. In 1999, Germany recovered 5.71 million tons of packaging waste and 77 kilograms per capita. Today, the German domestic garbage recycling rate has exceeded 70%, ranking first in Europe.
At present, the German government is promoting the "dual system" experience in processing domestic waste to other industries. Germany’s legislation in 1996 required manufacturers to assume the obligation to recycle used products and regenerate and use them. The cost can be included in production costs. This makes the industry, commerce, and consumers take responsibility for avoiding waste as much as possible.
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December 20 05:08:38, 2023
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