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The dairy industry puts environmental protection high on its list of key priorities. Because our industry lives of nature and lives with nature, we have a vested interest - more so than any other industry - in limiting and reducing environmental burden. A fact which is evident in packaging, for one thing, with a decreasing amount of energy and water being used and emissions being reduced.
The dairy industry is not one of the ecologically problematic sectors. After all, it trades in nature's ...
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The limits to optimisation
There are limits to how far we can go to optimise packaging. Fresh quality products need to be hygienically well protected, so packaging is a lot more than just a medium for promotion. There is a range of materials that provides the kind of protection sensitive dairy products need. They include:
glass
plastic and plastic foils
compound cardboard
aluminium
When choosing the raw ...
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Amendment of the packaging regulations: maintaining dual systems
The wrangling over the new requirements of German packaging regulations [VerpackVO] seems to be drawing to a close. In September 2007, the Federal Cabinet approved a proposal to this effect. The measure was debated in the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment on 10.10.2007. The Dairy Industry Association [MIV] played an active part in defining a common position together with other major associations (industry and retail). The general tenor was that it would surely be more efficient to ...
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Packaging for fresh milk
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95 %
96 %
96,6 %
97,2 %
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3,7 %
3,08 %
2,61 %
2,21 %
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1,31 %
0,93 %
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0,59 %
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2002
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2004
<1> Cartons <2> Returnable bottles <3> Tubular bags
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