Abstract
The legal, environmental and economic ramifications of the Dual System and UK Packaging Regulations have been the subject of considerable academic debate in recent years. Although it is generally agreed that the German packaging waste system has yet to achieve economic efficiency, opinions are divided as to its environmental merits. Michaelis (1995), Eichstadt, et al. (1999) and the European Commission (CEC, 2000c) suggest that the Packaging Ordinance has promoted higher levels of recycling in German but Staudt (1997) and Flanderka (1998) dispute the environmental worth of the DSD, arguing that recycling was already increasing before the Green Dot was introduced. There is, nevertheless, general agreement that design defects in the UK Packaging Regulations have significantly hampered Britain’s effects to achieve the recovery and recycling targets set by the Packaging Waste Directive. The main foci of concern have been the effects of market-based trading in PRNs and whether such a system can achieve both its economic and environmental objectives (O’Doherty and Bailey, 2000).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New environmental policy instruments in the European Union |
| Subtitle of host publication | politics, economics and the implementation of the packaging waste directive |
| Editors | Ian Bailey |
| Place of Publication | Aldershot |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing Limited |
| Pages | 88-117 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0754608883 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |