Emballageforsyningen i Danmark 2001

The Supply of Packaging in Denmark 2001

Summary in English

The consulting company LOGISYS A/S has prepared the survey of the Danish supply of packaging covering the year 2001, based on the same method as in previous years. The total supply of packaging for the year 2001 is calculated totally to be 1,032,488 tonnes. 43.1% is sales packaging and 56.9% is transportation packaging.

Between the surveys of 1999 and year 2001 three separate investigations to verify the estimated quantity of plastics, aluminium and tin plate packaging have been carried out.

The table below shows the total quantity of the packaging supply in the year 2001:

Total supply of packaging, 2001

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In the table below the total supply of packaging in the past eight years can be seen. In the past four years the quantity of packaging has increased.

Total supply of packaging in 1,000 tonnes

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As was the case in the survey covering the year 2000, the quantity of the packaging supply has been broken down on the product groups that are making use of the packaging. In principle, this is another way of calculating the packaging supply. Using these two methods the results should be at the same level, but there is a difference of 369,000 tonnes packaging. Of this, 145,000 tonnes are pallets of wood, which are not included in the supply quantity, when the quantity is divided into product groups. The use of other returnable packaging is not included in this calculation either.

Furthermore, a survey was made of the use of returnable packaging. It shows that there is a supply of 606 millions returnable packaging, and totally they have circulated 2.7 billion times in the year 2001. In case this quantity of packaging is one-way packaging, this quantity will increase the total supply of packaging by 1.2 million tonnes per year – approx. a doubling of the present quantity of packaging.