Keeping sales packaging circulating.

The EKO-PUNKT dual system.

As REMONDIS has its own nationwide logistics system and comprehensive network of facilities, it is not dependent on others. This not only means greater efficiency but also better quality and lower costs.

EKO-PUNKT is our "dual system" for taking back sales packaging. Manufacturers and retailers can join the system and by doing so release themselves from their legal take-back and recycling obligations.

An overview of the most important advantages:

• We do not only organize and coordinate the take back of sales packaging. We personally empty the recycling bins from a quarter of all households in Germany.
• We have our own recycling capacities with over 100 sorting and processing facilities for light packaging, paper and glass.
• As we provide practically all services ourselves, we have a lean structure and save considerable costs. An advantage which we pass on to you.
• At the same time, we noticeably reduce bothersome administrative work: thanks to our simple price structure, uncomplicated registration methods and comprehensible service agreements, you have less work with us than with others.
• EKO-PUNKT guarantees that it can cover the whole of Germany and it is also active in other European countries with its system to take back sales packaging.

Background
The Packaging Ordinance of the German Environmental Service and Waste Act aims to reduce environmental pollution caused by waste packaging and to promote the re-use and recycling of packaging. The central element of this law is the "dual collection" of waste, i.e. separating the collection of standard residual waste and the collection of used packaging. Whilst light packaging is thrown away into yellow recycling bins for kerbside collection, packaging made of glass or paper is taken back into the production cycle via centrally located containers – although in some regions in Germany there are kerbside collections of paper which has either been packaged together or thrown away into a blue bin.

Concrete figures prove that this system works: since the Packaging Ordinance came into force in 1991, the recycling rate of glass has increased from 50 to 85 percent and the recycling of paper from 44 to just under 80 percent. Plastics recycling only began when the Ordinance was introduced and today 54 percent of plastic packaging is already being recycled to recover materials or generate energy.

 Nothing changes for consumers when EKO-PUNKT is launched in a German state, for we use the systems which have already been set up. More information is available directly from EKO-PUNKT