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Successful commitment to the environment and climate

Everyone takes responsibility for ensuring that used protection product and liquid fertiliser packaging becomes raw materials!

3,698 t Returned packaging materials
4,229 t CO2 savings per year
Corresponds to the amount
of CO2 bound by
304,835 TREES*

*based on the calculations of the Frauenhofer Institut Umsicht (2023)

Get ahead of the pack.

PAMIRA®: Get ahead of the pack.

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Packaging Material Recovery for Agriculture (PAckMIttel-Rücknahme Agrar): PAMIRA® is the recovery system for plant protection product and liquid fertiliser packaging in Germany. Our system enables farmers, horticulturists, nurseries and other professionals to disposal their empty and rinsed packaging free of charge. 

In cooperation with the trade, packaging is taken back safely and sustainably at almost 400 collection points across Germany on specified dates with the help of trained inspection staff – and then passed on to our recycling partners. More than 90 per cent of the packaging recovered today finds a second life as recycled plastic products for the European cable protection industry. 

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PAMIRA® - Special dates for returning pheromone dispensers

Collection dates from 16 March to 20 March 2026

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The evolution of return quantities from 2013 to 2024

The recycling and return rate of packaging collected by PAMIRA® over the past 11 years

Over the past eleven years, the PAMIRA® system has continuously increased its recycling rate, reaching an encouraging peak of 95% in 2024. This success is also reflected in the expansion of the collection point network: more than ten new collection sites were added this year, bringing the total to 433 collection points across 463 collection dates nationwide.

The volume of returned packaging has also seen a significant rise. In 2024, 3,698 tonnes were collected – marking a substantial increase compared to the previous year. This positive development is the result of successful collaboration among all stakeholders and highlights the shared commitment to resource conservation and environmental protection.

PAMIRA® looks to the future with confidence and remains committed to partnership-based efforts to further advance a functioning circular economy and a more sustainable agricultural sector.

PAMIRA® is a registered trademark of Industrieverband Agrar e. V. (IVA). RIGK GmbH is responsible for carrying out collections and recycling the collected packaging.

Together for the environment: PAMIRA® trademark users

As PAMIRA® trademark users, more than over 100 manufacturers and fillers of pesticides and liquid fertilisers enable the safe and environmentally friendly return and recycling of packaging throughout Germany. Together with users and collection points, you are helping to protect the environment!

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Here’s what our users are saying

Johann Simeth

BayWa Loiching AG Operations Manager and part-time farmer

“PAMIRA® is important to me because it regulates the disposal of empty plant protection product packaging in a practical way. The containers are empty, cleaned and collected at the farm all year round. Then they are dropped off at the most convenient collection point once a year. These collection points can be located from anywhere on all the websites and at the warehouses. The PAMIRA® recovery system is really very good and the staff are helpful and friendly.”

Jürgen Schubert

Department Head for Environment / Safety BAT Agrar GmbH & Co. KG

“It was many years ago, but I’ll never forget when I had the unpleasant task of describing to a trade audience how much trouble manufacturers and dealers would be in with the legislator if it weren’t for PAMIRA®, our industry concept. What with the practical solutions it offers for the agricultural sector, the way it saves costs by dividing the labour between manufacturers, dealers and the system operator RIGK, and above all the huge success it has enjoyed since the first collection, all of the listeners were convinced that if we didn't have PAMIRA®, it would have to be invented right away!”

Volker Decker

Owner, Weinerlebnis Sommerhausen winery

“We need PAMIRA® to properly dispose of all our plant protection product containers. The system has always worked without any issues and to our greatest satisfaction.”