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Plastics make an important contribution to making services and goods available in a resource-efficient manner. Furthermore, at the end of their service life they contribute to saving resources as a raw material – also as waste. In Germany, nearly 100% of plastics are recovered: Every two years, the plastics industry compiles a complete picture of the plastic material flow from production to recycling. In the long run, the uncontrolled dumping of plastics into the environment inevitably also leads to plastics getting into the sea. In various projects, BKV highlights ways of avoiding this. The legislator's demands on the recovery of plastic waste will become much more demanding in the foreseeable future. Whether the technical options are sufficiently available to meet them needs to be clarified. How well recycling works and and how markets develop is also dependent on the legal framework. The importance of standards is increasingly recognised. They can also be very helpful on the way to the circular economy. The BKV is working on this.

BKV - Thinktank of the plastics industry

The BKV provides the industry with facts and figures on resource efficiency and circularity of plastics for their business decisions.

 

News

21.09.2023

The focus of the BKV Symposium on November 8, 2023 will be on the sustainable use of plastics in a carbon cycle.

21.09.2023

The partial substitution of plastics would increase the amount of climate gases by up to 14 percent. This is the result of current calculations by IFEU.

20.09.2023

US researchers have developed a new method for generating hydrogen from plastic waste, Euwid reports.

19.09.2023

The two companies want to cooperate in the recycling of polyurethane mattresses using a chemical process.

Studies

In addition to data on the production and converting of plastics in Germany, the study also offers facts and figures on the production and use of recycled materials.

The special report provides an initial estimate of how many pellets end up in the environment.

The report maps the input and fate of plastic waste in the terrestrial as well as aquatic environment.

Based on the year 2019, the analysis identifies previously unused waste streams for mechanical recycling.

We provide the data and facts to enable sound discussion

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Product stewardship

The BKV makes a valuable contribution to help the German plastics industry fulfil its product responsibility. The BKV represents the entire plastics value chain.

Plastics

Plastic is an ideal material for resource efficiency. What concerns us here is its potential contribution as a waste product.

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Concepts

The BKV provides strategic and conceptual support, and also helps with communicational matters concerning end-of-life topics with plastics.

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Recovery

Questions relating to the recycling of plastics are our forte: We draw up analyses, assessments and concepts.

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