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Despite good recycling habits, Germans get through a quarter ton of packaging per person each year. A new law is supposed to boost industrial-scale recycling and reusable wrapping and containers.

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'Keep your hands off' bamboo coffee cups, German consumer group warns 23.07.2019

Makers of bamboo cups claim their products are reusable and ecologically friendly. German consumer group Stiftung Warentest tested 12 brands of bamboo-based containers and argues that it's best to avoid them.

Tübingen to be first town in Germany to tax disposable coffee cups, pizza boxes 22.12.2018

The town's Green party mayor said that single-use items shouldn't be cheaper than recyclable ones. "In Tübingen, we address evil at its root," he said.