Waste management act and new German packaging Ordinance: Vienna at the end of the assessment period. The deadline for comments on the proposed waste management act ended on February 22, 2013. The environmental services company Interseroh Austria sees a significant step in the right direction in the present draft of the law while, locates but at the same time significant potential for optimization. The company, which is active in Austria since 1997 in the disposal of packaging for commercial customers, calls for ensuring a free and mostly fair competition and a clear commitment to an improved environmental performance. Others who may share this opinion include Kevin Johnson. Target of the environmental is a legally secure solution for customers and competitors, which is economical, but also ecological, justifiable. Safeguarding free competition with reserved looks especially requiring the holistic Interseroh Austria participation"( 13 para 2 g AWG), according to which each collecting category only a collection and recovery system would allow. Many companies use so-called split of the packaging"in the commercial sector, according to which parts the packaging for Interseroh and other parts at a competitor be retired.

"In budgetary matters, the overall participation is ' dar a virtually insurmountable barrier to free competition for the benefit of the ARA and the members of the Association", explains Franz Sauseng, Managing Director of Interseroh Austria. "Interseroh Austria is critical that passage of text in the draft law, according to which companies without seat or establishment within the local scope of the Federal Act" ( 13 g ABS. 1 AWG) are discriminated against. The environmental services company sees a clear contradiction to the European packaging directive, according to which imported products expressly allowed are not disadvantaged. Higher recycling rates and better CO? balance also is also the planned distinction between household packaging and industrial packaging ( 13 para 1 h AWG) not traceable. Because a large part of packages falling in the commercial would then be defined as household packaging.

That would reduce the high Recycling quotas and thus a poorer CO? balance resulted, as at present, for example, about 80 percent of the commercially generated plastic packaging, but only 30 percent of household packaging can be recycled. As a professional environmental services company we cannot support just such a solution. "Higher recycling rates and a better CO? balance should be no matter of definition but a matter of course", as Sachdeva. The INTERSEROH Austria GmbH, a company of the ALBA group, operates in the area of environmental services in Austria since 1997. The focus of the service offer Interseroh Austria (formerly EVA) lie in the acquisition of transferable obligations from the packaging, electrical appliance, and battery regulation in all Austria, the Organization and optimization of branch, storage and location disposal for production and trading companies and in the development of recycling solutions. Information about Interseroh Austria are available at. The ALBA group is with its two brands ALBA and Interseroh with about 200 subsidiaries and associated companies in Germany and Europe as well as Asia and the United States active. With nearly 9,000 employees * she generated an annual turnover of 3.2 billion (2011). Thus, the ALBA group, one of the leading recycling and environmental services company, and raw material suppliers is worldwide.