Mass flow verification and Environmental Performance Balance
Comparison on soundly based foundations
Every year, Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) compiles a mass flow verification report (MFV), detailing the sales packages collected and recovered from the Yellow Bag and the Yellow Bin, from the bottle banks and the wastepaper containers. On the basis of the MFV and in broad conformity with international standards of ecological accounting, DSD also computes an environmental performance balance, detailing the figures for packaging recycling with the Green Dot.
- How DSD's overall recovery rate has developed
- Statutory requirements and recovery rates achieved
There are scientifically recognised and standardised methods and tools for this, as described in the DIN-EN-ISO standards 14040 and 14044. In broad conformity with these standards, DSD each year compiles an environmental performance balance for an ecological assessment of its work. The results of the analyses it contains serve to ensure that decisions on the ecological optimisation of the processes involved are made on soundly based foundations.
For the environmental performance balance, DSD determines the consumption figures for energy and resources, and quantifies the emissions produced by the various recycling processes involved. Only when the manufacture of a product as the result of the recycling process leads to savings in comparison to primary production will recycling make any ecological sense.
- By recycling 2.2 million tons of used sales packages, Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) saved 49 billion megajoules of primary energy in 2010, thus avoiding emissions amounting to 1.3 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.
Corporate Mission: Responsibility
