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

Markus Groth ()
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Markus Groth: Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University of Lüneburg

No 87, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: agri-environmental policy; biodiversity conservation auctions; transaction costs; ecological services; plant biodiversity; experimental economics; EAFRD-Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D44 D82 H41 L14 Q24 Q28 Q57 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2008-06-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-eec and nep-env
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