A new publication from the Circular Economy Initiative Germany sheds light on the entire product life cycle of plastic packaging: from design to production and use to recycling.
More packaging and fuller trash cans: With 227.5 kilograms of packaging waste per capita, Germany was the European leader in waste generation in 2018. Due to the change in consumption behavior in the Corona Lockdown, this figure will be significantly exceeded again in 2020. The large amount of packaging waste and the resulting increase in resource consumption have long since become a problem.
