{"id":88923,"date":"2023-12-14T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=88923"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:29:59","slug":"associations-criticise-plastic-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/verbaende-ueben-kritik-an-plastiksteuer\/","title":{"rendered":"Associations criticise planned plastic tax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The debt brake remains untouched, but savings and cuts are planned - this is the result of a follow-up meeting in which the government agreed on a budget for 2024. The savings and cuts also include plans to introduce a plastic tax. This has been criticised by associations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A plastic tax burdens consumers and damages the circular economy, criticises the Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen IK.<\/p>

\u201eA plastic levy would be passed on by companies to consumers in the form of higher product prices. This means that consumers pay the levy at the checkout.\u201c<\/p>

Dr Martin Engelmann,<\/strong> Managing Director of the Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V.<\/p><\/blockquote>

It is incomprehensible to the industry that, in addition to the special single-use plastic levy that will be introduced from 2024, another levy is now to be paid on plastic packaging<\/strong>. \u201eIn Germany, the distributors of plastic packaging are already making a significant financial contribution to promoting the recycling of plastic packaging with the fees for the dual systems. In addition, there is an extremely effective collection system for single-use beverage packaging that is subject to a deposit and, from next year, the single-use plastic levy,\u201c explains Engelmann and explains that companies no longer have any room for further burdens<\/strong> exists.<\/p>

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According to the association, an additional plastic levy would have the wrong ecological steering effect in favour of more poorly recyclable paper composite packaging.<\/p>

\u201eWe are very concerned that such a tax on plastic packaging would massively fuel the trend towards non-recyclable or poorly recyclable paper-plastic composite packaging. The Central Agency Packaging Register and the Federal Environment Agency recently warned of this.\u201c<\/p>

Dr Isabell Schmidt,<\/strong> Managing Director Circular Economy at IK<\/p><\/blockquote>

The industry proposes instead, to place a greater financial burden on poorly recyclable packaging in a material-neutral way<\/strong>. \u201eGermany needs stronger financial instruments to promote packaging that is easy to recycle,\u201c explains Schmidt. \u201eThis fund model agreed in the coalition agreement <\/strong>The best way to develop the packaging market towards a circular economy in a financially effective and ecologically sensible way is to stagger the licence fees to the dual systems according to ecological criteria,\u201c says Schmidt.<\/p>

The IK also criticises the justification for the plastic levy. \u201eThe German government is pretending that the so-called EU plastic levy should be passed on to companies. This is grossly misleading,\u201c explains Engelmann, pointing out that the EU plastic levy merely a method for calculating the contribution<\/strong> of the member states to the EU. \u201eEU membership contributions were increased after Brexit to cover the hole in the EU budget. The additional funds from this so-called EU own resource flow from the national budgets of the member states into the general EU budget without being earmarked for a specific purpose. A \u201elevy\u201c of these additional contributions to the EU is not necessary. Furthermore, it is not clear why the companies that produce or use plastic packaging should be liable for the consequences of Brexit in the EU budget and the unconstitutional budget management of the German government,\u201c says Engelmann.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\"A plastic tax misses its target\"<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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According to the association of plastics producers Plastics Europe, it supports all measures that promote a climate-neutral circular economy, but a tax that only applies to plastic packaging would miss its target.<\/p>

\u201eThe tax is intended to reduce non-recyclable plastic packaging, but discriminating against plastic only leads to manufacturers switching to other materials. This neither solves the waste problem nor helps the environment and climate protection. The alternative to plastic is often coated fibre composites, such as in coffee cups, which are more difficult to recycle.\u201c<\/p>

Ingemar B\u00fchler,<\/strong> Plastics Europe Germany<\/p><\/blockquote>

B\u00fchler adds: \u201eIn contrast, we already have a recycling rate of 67.5 per cent for plastic packaging in Germany. A packaging levy should therefore take into account the recyclability of all materials and ensure that higher prices are not passed on to consumers in the end<\/strong> become.\"<\/p>

Together with the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI), Plastics Europe had already Recommendations<\/a> on the implementation of the plastic tax.<\/p>

Sources:<\/em> Industrial Association for Plastic Packaging IK<\/a> \/ Plastics Europe<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\tThe transformation towards a functioning circular economy is key for the packaging industry.\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead more \"\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tPackaging industry looks ahead to possible UN plastics agreement\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tFrom 5 to 14 August, more than 170 countries are negotiating a legally binding global agreement to combat plastic pollution in Geneva. The agreement could also have far-reaching consequences for manufacturers and processors of plastic packaging in Germany. Industry associations such as IK, GKV and Plastics Europe are calling for international standards, but warn against overly rigid production restrictions.\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead more \"\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the announcement by the coalition government to introduce a so-called plastic tax, the associations warn of an additional burden on the economy and consumers and point out the negative ecological consequences of such a tax.","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":83415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Nach der Ank\u00fcndigung der Ampelregierung zur Einf\u00fchrung einer Plastiksteuer warnen die Verb\u00e4nde vor einer Mehrbelastung und negativen \u00f6kologischen Folgen.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Plastiksteuer","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[57582,54,60216],"class_list":{"0":"post-88923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aus-den-unternehmen-news","8":"tag-ik-industrievereinigung-kunststoffverpackungen","9":"tag-kunststoff-und-verbunde","10":"tag-plastics-europe-deutschland","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}