The AVU, in dialogue with its members, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders, aims to achieve the following objectives: Producers, bottlers, traders, waste disposal companies and recyclers assume responsibility for an environmentally sound and resource-protective use and recycling of packaging in a competitive framework. Consumers are enabled with information and the provision of suitable collecting systems to make their own contribution to environment and resource protection with packaging. The political and economic framework conditions of packaging recycling should be designed in such a way that consumers are not additionally financially burdened. This also implies that all the obligated parties make their financial contribution in a transparent and legally sound environment.