Summary in English, Miljøstyrelsen

Emballageforsyningen i Danmark 2000

Summary in English

The survey of the Danish supply of packaging covering the year 2000 was accomplished by

the consulting company LOGISYS A/S, using the same method as in previous years. The total supply of packaging for year 2000 is calculated at a total of 1,006,828 tonnes. 43% is sales packaging and 57% is transportation packaging.

Between the surveys in 1999 and 2000, two separate investigations verifying the estimated quantity of plastics and aluminium packaging were carried out.

These investigations were initiated, because the Danish consumption figures for these materials are high compared with our neighbouring countries. The investigations are reported independently, and the conclusions are incorporated in the present survey of the supply of packaging.

The table below shows the total quantity of the packaging supply in the year 2000:

Total supply of packaging, 2000

Materials	Sales packaging, tonnes	Transportation packaging, tonnes	Total, tonnes
Corrugated cardboard	44,975	298,998	343,973
Cardboard	50,497	9,552	60,049
Laminate cardboard	14,415		14,415
Casting board	2,662	662	3,324
Paper	26,375	27,174	53,549
Paper and board, total	138,924	336,386	475,310
Glass, total	167,586	2	167,588
PVC	200	(15)	185
PP	15,740	3,493	19,233
PS	4,188	17	4,205
EPS	2,769	2,216	4,985
Plastic laminate	5,371	-	5,371
PET	6,542	751	7,293
HDPE	10,433	13,525	23,958
LDPE	30,404	60,436	90,840
Other plastic materials	660	483	1,144
Plastics, total	76,307	80,907	157,214
Iron a.o.	8,555	665	9,220
Aluminium	6,912	164	7,076
Tinplate	30,879	4,971	35,850
Metal, total	46,346	5,800	52,146
Textile, total	-	3,143	3,143
Wood, total	1,013	150,414	151,427
Total	430,176	576,652	1,006,828
%-split	42.7	57.3	100.0

In the table below shows the total supply of packaging in the past seven years. In the past three years the quantity of packaging has increased.

Total supply of packaging in 1,000 tonnes

Materials	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Paper and cardboard	396	409	412	463	435	469	475
Glass	138	176	185	202	176	188	168
Plastics	111	136	133	163	158	153	157
Metal	41	54	50	48	44	32	52
Textile	2	3	3	4	4	4	3
Wood	79	117	83	78	132	151	152
Total	767	895	866	958	949	997	1,007
Index (1994=100)	100	117	113	125	124	130	131

As in the survey covering 1999, the quantity of the packaging supply is broken down on the product groups making use of the packaging. In principle, this is another way to calculate the packaging supply. The results obtained by using these two methods should be identical, but there is a difference of 309,000 tonnes packaging. Of this 130,000 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.

Further, a survey of the use of returnable packaging was made. It shows a supply of 633 million returnable packaging circulating a total of 2.9 billion times in the year 2000. In case this quantity of packaging is one-way packaging, this quantity will increase the total supply of packaging by 1.4 million tonnes per year � app. a doubling of the present quantity of packaging.