A review of the German mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging and drinks packaging taxes in Europe

Arbeitspapier

The mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging, embodied in the German Packaging Ordinance of 1991, entered into force in January 2003, after the condition for its implementation was given by the fall of the market share of reusable drinks packaging under 72% in 1997. In this context the author doubts that the German mandatory deposit is an effective instrument to stabilise the market share of ecologically advantageous drinks packaging. Rather it is to be expected that the environmental policy objectives can be accomplished more effectively by a reorientation of the specific environmental policy. Hence it needs to be considered that even eleven years after the first time decrease of the relevant market share of reusable drinks packaging an urgent need for action exists in Germany. This practise based analysis therefore deals with packaging-taxes as an alternative environmental policy instrument and points out recommendations against the background of a further amending of the German Packaging Ordinance as well as experiences from the use of packaging taxes in Europe.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 87

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Field Experiments ; Auctions ; Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design ; Public Goods ; Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Land ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy ; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology ; Regional Government Analysis: Land Use and Other Regulations
• Subject: Packaging tax ; waste management ; mandatory deposit ; non-ecologically advantageous one-way drinks packaging ; environmental policy ; Getränkeverpackung ; Abfallabgabe ; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse ; Mehrwegverpackung ; Umweltorientierte Verpackung ; Umweltabgabe ; Deutschland ; Europa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Groth, Markus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Lüneburg
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28207
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET