Introduction to packaging -- Sustainable development and packaging -- Designing packaging -- Introducing the compass -- The directions of the compass -- Product protection -- Material use -- Fill rate -- Apportionment -- User-friendliness -- Information and communication

The mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging, embodied in the German Packaging Ordinance of 1991, entered into force in January 2003, after the condition for its implementation was given by the fall of the market share of reusable drinks packaging under 72% in 1997. In this context the...