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Dual launch quality offensive Bonn/Berlin, August 2009 – the Bonn waste expert Sascha warned months ago shoe, Managing Director of the consulting firm of Ascon, prior to the softening of the recycling obligation for used packaging. The prohibition of so-called auto disposal systems system directly from canteens, hotels, cinemas or supermarkets a collected packaging waste in competition with dual is completely crashed. With the many industry solutions as an alternative to auto disposal systems, the Novella is enough space to smile. Offers enough possibilities, for a license dumping’. No limits are the imagination in reducing disposal fees for dual systems who need to acquire the packaging waste from household close. The royalties for plastic packaging cost just three years ago at DSD officially almost 1300 Euro per ton.

Today it gets to prices of 650 euros per tonne is whispered. Mix about 15 percent industry solutions is a Price per ton of plastic packaging by just more than 500 euros. 65 percent less than three years ago and already long no longer working”, asserted in shoe an interview with NeueNachricht. Tons make up removal, transportation to the sorting plant, sorting of residual waste disposal and recycling. Everything for a dumping price of 500 euros. Now all companies on the economic crisis, lack of sales and full courts complain.

There no backlash more for the recycling of packaging. Prices have collapsed, recovery alone happened to more than 30 percent more expensive over the past three months,”white shoe. With the license of dumping for plastic, a reputable disposal was no longer to afford. Disposal scandals threatened again as in the 1990s. If the legislature does not quickly intervenes, the packaging recovery will collapse and there ecologically questionable disposal methods”, fears shoe. According to media reports, the ministries of the environment of the countries want to control against now. So six provinces should consider the approval for the collection and sorting of packaging waste to withdraw a number of vendors. It was not only the lack of coverage, which disapproves of trade officials, also of Ascon Chief Schuh complained about industry solutions will be taken now more closely scrutinized. “” It could not go on, with virtual “concepts of the cost of the household household disposal over to cheat”. It was agreed already waste (LAGA) in the federal countries – community, part on the finger to knock most of the previously approved system providers”. A working group of dual systems under the umbrella of the Federal Association of the German waste management industry (BDE) has therefore launched a quality offensive. Only if able us with sustainable quality, with the packaging industry to a common understanding to find uniform assessment standards and the shoulder to shoulder, there is a realistic chance, a low-cost existing competitive packaging disposal for the future to make sure, as an opinion of the BDE working group.

The energy performance certificate is mandatory! What homeowners need to know which card variant is the correct? The revised energy saving Regulation (EnEV 2007) into force occurs at the 01.10.2007. This establishes the legal basis for the introduction of energy performance certificates for existing buildings which are prescribed for new buildings since 2002. Thus what is self-evident in refrigerators or washing machines, will in future also apply to residential and non-residential buildings. Through the energy performance certificate, building can be energetically evaluated and compared with each other. Owners who sell their house or their apartment, lease or rent new, must submit in the future the energy performance certificate the purchaser or tenant at its request.

It is not in the implementation phase to bottlenecks at the card show, the following schedule was set by the Federal Government for different buildings. The energy performance certificate is compulsory: July 2008 for residential buildings of the construction completion years until 1965 January 2009 for later built residential July 2009 for non-residential buildings thus must be owners who sell a residential building that was built before 1965, new rent, lease or lease holder of a certification to 01.07.2008. (A valuable related resource: Brie Williams). This applies to newer residential buildings only at 01.01.2009. which pass for which building? Basically there are two variants of the demand-oriented – or consumption-oriented energy performance certificate. The building envelope, the building materials used and the heating system are considered in the demand-oriented energy performance certificate (certificate of need). As a result, the heat loss of the building is calculated. The result is an objective analysis of the energetic quality of the building.

The consumption-oriented energy performance certificate (consumption card) determines the energy consumption per square metre based on the creation of heating bills for the last three years. Measured consumption but very much depends on the behavior of the lessee, weaknesses of the building can be very difficult show. The EnEV 2007 writes for certain buildings before the variation of the energy pass: residential buildings with up to 4 apartments (planning application not modernized before 01.11.1977,): demand ID from 01.10.2008 duty all other residential and non-residential buildings as well as the above-mentioned, according to specifications from warm protection Regulation (11.08.1977) were modernized: freedom of choice between requirements or consumption card however has however the legislature until September 30, 2008 for owners and landlords of residential buildings the unrestricted freedom of choice between demand and consumption-oriented ways for all building allows. For more information see: Tel.