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� Council of Environmental Advisors (Sachverständigen Rat für Umweltfragen,
SRU) Environmental Report („Umweltgutachten“) 2008, July 2008 (See:
http://www.umweltrat.de for further information).
� Council of Environmental Advisors (Sachverständigen Rat für Umweltfragen,
SRU) Environmental Report („Umweltgutachten“) 2004, July 2004 Council of
Environmental Advisors (Sachverständigen Rat für Umweltfragen, SRU)
Environmental Report („Umweltgutachten“) 2002, July 2002.
� Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), lifecycle assessment
for beverage packaging II – body (Ökobilanz für Getränkeverpackungen II –
Hauptteil), UBA-texts 37/00 (See http://www.umweltdaten.de/uba-infopresse/hintergrund/oebil.pdf)
17.5 Environmental Benefits
The government’s ambitious target was to increase the market share of beverages
sold in reusable drinks packaging and ecologically advantageous one-way drinks
packaging to at least 80 per cent. Instead, the market share of reusable drinks
packaging has continuously decreased.
For a short period after the introduction of the one-way deposit policy the market
share of beverages in returnable bottles increased in January 2003 to over 61 % from
52.2 % at the end of 2002. The market share for multi-trip packaging for beer rose
from 74.7% to 91%, for Coca Cola and for lemonade beverages, from 50.5% to 75.8
%, and for water from, 67 to 78.7 %.
But this was only a temporary rise as after 2004, the proportion of reusable
packaging has been falling. For all drinks the market share of reusable packaging fell
from 71.7% (1991) to 50.5% (2006). Table 17-1 shows the changes by type of drink,
the summary translation of this information is given as follows:
� Mineral waters, spring waters, table waters etc. exhibited a fall from 73% to
52.6% between 2003 and 2006.
� Carbonated soft drinks (specifically lemonades, including cola drinks, fizzy
drinks) fell from 65.4% to 47.5%.
� Non-carbonated soft drinks fell from 24% to 14%.
� Only for beer (including alcohol-free beer and mixed drinks containing beer)
did the quota remain more or less stable, with a small decrease from 89.2% to
86.9%.
According to the latest research conducted by GFK, the market share of reusable
bottles for all alcohol-free drinks like water, soft drinks or fruit-juice has dropped to
27,2% in the first half-year 2008. This means an overall 25% lower share than before
the deposit on drinking packages was introduced in 2003. 377 One-way PET-bottles,
377 EUWID from 19.08.2008, p.6.
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