“Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH” has been operating a nationwide dual system since 1991 by way of its funding symbol “Der Grüne Punkt”, thus offering the manufacturers und distributors of sales packaging a comprehensive service package.
2.1 Services of Duales System Deutschland GmbH
- As a dual system, we release you from all duties arising from the Packaging Ordinance – this covers the taking back of your sales packaging, professional recycling and the documentation.
- We provide proof by way of the annual mass flow verification that the stipulations of the Packaging Ordinance have been met.
- Our performance is checked constantly on behalf of the federal states (“Bundesländer”).
- We offer industry-specific and expert consulting services. Duales System Deutschland GmbH is familiar with the special requirements and problems of your industry.
- We offer you a transparent price concept. Our prices are in line with the user-pays principle, taking into consideration solutions that are specific to the industry.
- We are checked regularly by independent auditors and environmental experts, thus ensuring high quality and the simultaneous optimization of our performance.
2.2 Scope of collection, sorting and recycling
The waste management partners of Duales System Deutschland GmbH collect, sort and recycle sales packaging.
Sales packaging is packaging that is offered in a sales unit and accrues at the private consumer's premises, i.e. in private households and at comparable accrual points. However, sales packaging also includes packaging units of the retail trade, catering trade and other services that make possible the delivery of merchandise to private consumers. These packaging units are called service packaging units. These include, for example, plastic carrier bags, paper carrier bags, disposable dishes and disposable cutlery.
Transport packaging facilitates the transport of merchandise and protects it from getting damaged. As a rule, transport packaging is incurred by distributors or in the retail trade – and not by private consumers. Transport packaging includes pallets, shrink wrapping film and cartons that contain several sales units.
2.3 Disposal areas of Duales System Deutschland GmbH
Duales System Deutschland GmbH disposes of sales packaging that ends up with so-called private final consumers.
A consumer within the meaning of this ordinance is anyone who does not in his/her turn sell the goods in the form supplied to him/her. Private consumers within the meaning of this ordinance are households and comparable places of origination for packages, particularly restaurants, hotels, canteens, administrative facilities, barracks, hospitals, educational facilities, charitable institutions, self-employed persons and typical places of origination in the cultural sector, like cinemas, opera houses and museums, as well as leisure facilities like holiday resorts, holiday parks, sport stadiums and motorway services. Comparable places of origination within the meaning of Sentence 2 also include agricultural facilities and craft operations that can handle their disposal needs using commercially available collection containers for paper, board, cartons and lightweight packages with not more than maximally one 1,100-litre dischargeable container for each substance category, in a removal rhythm typical for private households.
These are in particular and are thus to be disposed of within the system’s requirement:
- agricultural businesses
- airports
- bakeries, also those within consumer markets (shop-in-shop)
- botanical gardens
- butchers, also those within consumer markets (shop-in-shop)
- camping sites, holiday resorts
- catering businesses
- cemeteries and related market gardens
- chemists
- Christmas fairs, marquees, town and other festivals
- churches
- cinemas
- circuses
- cleaning contractors
- clubs, foundations, charitable institutions
- dental laboratories
- dialysis centers, medical institutions
- educational institutions, e. g. schools, adult education centres, kindergartens, etc.
- embassies
- fun fairs, amusement parks
- German army (but only canteens and army workshops on barracks’ ground)
- hairdresser’s
- holiday parks
- homes, workshops of handicapped people
- hospitals and comparable institutions such as nursing centres, rehabilitation clinics, health resorts, day clinics
- kiosks
- motorway service areas
- museums
- nurseries and gardening centres
- old people's homes
- opticians
- petrol stations
- prisons
- research institutes
- snack bars, mobile and stationary
- swimming pools, sport stadiums
- universities (all areas)
- zoological parks
