On 5 June, the European Commission published a Commission Notice providing further clarity about the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation in practice. We take a closer look at the document to understand its requirements in detail, including the current status of PFAS restrictions, the…
In this Innovation Spotlight, Dow outlines how its extrusion coating portfolio aims to support recyclability requirements and regulatory readiness, and how its collaboration with RDM Group demonstrates how lightweight polymer coatings can extend the use of fibre-based packaging into applications…
The shift towards sustainable solutions in flexible packaging is no longer a choice but an imperative driven by legislation, costs, and evolving consumer expectations. In this field of tensions, argues Wipak’s Susan Janssen, it is even more important to take everybody on board on that path,…
Innovation leaders from Kraft Heinz share their learnings from the sustainable packaging innovation process, in particular how leveraging internal and external partnerships can accelerate bringing innovation to market.
This presentation reviews the work of the FlexFunction2Sustain project, with the goal of creating an Open Innovation Test Bed for nano-functionalisation technologies that enable sustainable and smart plastics and paper-based products, and introduces the new European Sustainable Nanotechnology…
Collaborators from the distinct worlds of of brand owner (Beiersdorf’s Janina Zippel), investor (Fredric Petit from Emerald) and start-up (DePoly’s Samantha Anderson) discuss the teachable insights from their partnership on how to harness open innovation.
The position of chemical recycling in our recycling ecosystem is much discussed - and by some fundamentally rejected. In this panel we scrutinise the strategic role of advanced recycling, its environmental impacts, and the associated and equally controversial question of mass balance accounting.
Pioneers of plastic recycling from Africa, Asia, North America and Europe discuss how different regions of the world can learn from each other’s experiences in developing a circular economy for plastics, how we can better support each other to drive circularity globally, and what kinds of…
In this panel you’ll hear from experts who are directly involved in deposit return schemes, and learn more about where they stand and what solutions they propose.
The autumn of 2023 is a pivotal moment for the European regulatory landscape and the shaping of the PPWR. We hear from Brussels and Brussels watchers about the key tensions and imperatives.
