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with a market share of 63%, are the most favoured packaging type followed by
reusable PET-bottles with 13.7% and glass-bottles with 13.5%. 378
Table 17-1: Market Share of Reusable Packaging
Overview Overview of of the the Quota Quota for for for Returnable Returnable Drinks Drinks Drinks Packaging Packaging (Mehrwegquote) (Mehrwegquote) from from 1991 1991 until until 2006 2006
2006
Year Year Year
1991 1995 1995 2000 2000 2002 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006
2006
All All Beverages Beverages 71.7 71.7 72.3 72.3 72.3 65.0 65.0 56.2 56.2 63.6 63.6 60.3 60.3 60.3 56.0 56.0 50.5
50.5
Mineral
Water
Carbonated
Soft Drinks
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93.3 89.0 81.0 68.3 73.0 67.6 60.9 52.6
73.7 75.3 67.0 54.0 65.4 62.2 54.4 47.5
Beer 82.2 79.1 72.8 68.0 89.2 87.8 88.5 86.9
Noncarbonated
Soft Drinks
34.6 38.2 33.6 29.2 24.0 20.6 17.1 14.0
Wine 28.6 30.4 25.0 25.3 24.6 20.0 19.0 17.5
Source: GVM 1/2008
Introduction of a deposit for Mineral
water, soft drinks and beer (without
fruit-juices and nectars)
A remarkable slowdown of sale-figures for cans, from 7.2 billion cans per year to just
under 3 billion cans in 2004 was observed. 379 Discounters switched from selling
alcohol-free drinks and beer in cans to glass-bottles (for beer) or PET-bottles (for
alcohol-free drinks). The switch for sparkling drinks (like beer or soft drinks) has gone
hand in hand with new PET-technologies (nano-particular layers for PET-bottles) which
prevent CO2 loss from the product.
Comparing the market share of ecologically-unfriendly one-way drinking packaging
with ecologically-friendly one-way and reusable containers shows a clear shift in
favour of the first group between 2004 to 2006. As Figure 17-1 shows, ecologicallyunfriendly
one-way packaging (yellow) rose from 28.9% to 40.3%, ecologically-friendly
one-way packaging (blue) remained at about 4.2% and reusable packaging (green)
fell from 66.3% to 55.5%.
The aim of the one-way deposit for drinking bottles to reduce the littering of the
landscape with drinking packages has been achieved, according to the Federal
Environment Ministry. 380 Furthermore it can be observed, anecdotally, across the
countryside that due to the refunds available, these products are either not thrown
away, or are collected by people to receive the deposit. The compulsory deposit is a
378 EUWID from 19.08.2008, p.6.
379 EUWID from 14.02.2006, p. 2.
380 EUWID from 19.08.2008, p. 6.