BKV Brochures
With its studies, the BKV offers, through reliable and practical data and facts, a useful orientation for interested groups both inside and outside the industry. In this year‘s activity report, the managing directors of the associations – Plastics Europe Deutschland, GKV and VDMA – each present brief statements in the context of the current situation within their environment. Here, the BKV is an important interface for the industry.
As a competence center for the plastics industry, BKV unites plastics producers, processors and the machinery manufacturing industry under one roof. Together, they contribute to solutions for a competitive, sustainable and modern plastics industry. In the past financial year, for example, the BKV published a series of fundamental studies on the recycling of materials with a particular focus on the production and use of plastics as well as on networking in the value chain through to the reuse of recyclates and by-products. The new report not only provides insights into these latest studies, but also provides an overview of the work and activities of the BKV.
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BKV Report 2024/2025
BKV GmbH is the German plastics industry's think tank and competence center for resource efficiency and plastics recycling. The current report provides an overview of the BKV's work and contains first-hand expert statements from the Advisory Board and the Technical Committee (TA) as well as the latest BKV study on assessing the recyclability of plastic packaging. An overview of all BKV projects and studies is also included.
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BKV Report 2023/2024
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On the Sustainability of Plastic Packagings: In slightly understandable examples the brochure makes clear how plastic packaging contributes in a special way to the sustainability.
From Manufacture to Recovery: The brochure of BKV GmbH offers comprehensive information about the resource efficiency of the material plastic and describes how plastic waste becomes raw materials. The saving and avoidance effects of CO2 are pointed out on all steps of the value chain, from manufacture to recovery.
Others
What does the European Commission's Action Plan say? What is intended by the Green Deal and, above all, where in the action plan are plastics affected? The 12-page summary of the BKV provides a good overview of what is to come from Brussels for the plastics industry. (Status: 11.03.2020)
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The specialist book "Kunststoff Recycling in Produkten" gives a comprehensive insight into products from plastic waste streams. At the same time it is an impressive report about the achievements of the plastic recycling industry in the last 20 years.
The focus is on plastics from the yellow bag. It shows not only a huge number of products which are produced of former plastic sales packaging, but also shows clearly how recycling works. About 400 photos illustrate the respective source groups, the different intermediate stages as well as the final products.
Dr. Stefan Bosewitz, Kunststoff Recycling in Produkten, VGE Verlag GmbH, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86797-152-2
(1st edition, German institute for Standardization A 5, 4-coloured, about 400 photos)
Reference manual for an appropriate implementation of the REACH requirements for the operators of recycling plants.
The European Regulation 1907/2006 on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) interfaces with waste legislation at various points, but forms a freestanding, demarcated legislative domain: came into effect on 1 June 2007.
This reference manual is intended to describe the most important aspects and regulations for plastic recyclers, and provide the reader with guidance on how successful REACH implementation can be carried out in one’s own organisation.
www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/reach-kunststoffrecycling
This report shows preliminary global and European plastics production data. It also provides European plastics industry’s key economic figures, trade balance, top trade partners, and preliminary estimations of European plastics conversion