page_title: Green Dot (symbol)
section_title: Concept
hierarchical_section_title: Green Dot (symbol) / Concept
caption_attribution_description: A PAO symbol, a Green Dot symbol, a Resin identification code and an EAN barcode on a bottle of lotion.
context_page_description: The Green Dot is the license symbol of a European network of industry-funded systems for recycling the packaging materials of consumer goods. The logo is trademark protected worldwide.
context_section_description: The Green Dot system was thought up by Klaus Töpfer, Germany's environment minister in the early 1990s. The basic idea of the Green Dot is that consumers who see the logo know that the manufacturer of the product contributes to the cost of recovery and recycling. This can be with household waste collected by the authorities (e.g. in special bags - in Germany these are yellow), or in containers in public places such as car parks and outside supermarkets.
  The system is financed by the green dot licence fee paid by the producers of the products. Fees vary by country and are based on the material used in packaging (e.g. paper, plastic, metal, wood, cardboard). Each country also has different fees for joining the scheme and ongoing fixed and variable fees. Fees also take into account the cost of collection, sorting and recycling methods.
  In simple terms, the system encourages manufacturers to cut down on packaging as this saves them the cost of licence fees.
caption: Black-and-white version of the "Der Grüne Punkt" DSD logo on a bottle of lotion, located between the PAO symbol and the resin identification code for LDPE, next to an EAN-13 barcode.
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