In the face of an escalating packaging waste crisis, European citizens and circular businesses are still eagerly waiting for the EU institutions to finally deliver credible rules to stop the growth of throwaway packing, writes Marco Musso.
As the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)’s plenary voting date quickly approaches, The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) takes a look at this draft piece of legislation with a critical question and asks, “what do we want our packaging to be like in the future?”
To ensure circularity, it is critical that secondary raw materials find their way into new products with the least environmental impact. Paper recycling is already high-quality recycling, as it is recycled back into paper products. A material recycling loop is …
The food delivery sector is a major contributor to packaging waste, and by focusing on the sustainability of its packaging it can attract a larger consumer base while doing good for the planet, writes Sébastien Pellion.
The revision of the EU’s packaging legislation signals a wholesale shift to reusable beverage containers that will derail and undermine the attainment of a true circular economy for soft drink packaging.
Beverage cartons play an important role in a sustainable and low-carbon circular economy in Europe. It comes as no surprise then that ACE, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment, is strongly committed to a low carbon circular economy.
The beginning of 2022 marks three and a half years since the current Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) was adopted. As we head towards a new proposal – on the horizon for mid-2022– ACE, takes this opportunity to reflect on the role of packaging and beverage cartons.
Going green is not a new phase in the world of sustainable packaging, it’s a necessity. In the case of sustainable packaging, it has and can make its contribution to climate change mitigation, and at the EU level, to achieving the goals of the very ambitious European Green Deal of climate neutrality.
Beverage cartons are a low carbon, recyclable packaging solution that supports the EU Green Deal ambitions and actively contributes to reducing a negative environmental impact by sourcing sustainable raw materials for its production.
Packaging is part of our daily life and offers essential benefits: protecting food and beverages, allowing their safe use and transport, and preventing food waste. The beverage carton industry believes packaging can, and should, contribute to mitigating the biggest global challenge: climate change, while not compromising on food safety.
Our world is facing major challenges and requires urgent action to ensure the well-being of our and future generations. With growing consumption needs, so are the demands for more sustainable solutions.
Every year, 11 million people across the globe die due to poor diet. A recent research review in the Lancet suggests that nutrition is a bigger health risk than smoking or high blood pressure. According to …
The time has come for the European Parliament’s last opportunity to take concrete action before handing over the reins to the EU’s successors: making it mandatory to produce plastic bottles with at least 25% of recycled plastics by 2025.
The function of food packaging has traditionally been limited to passive protection from external influences, but innovations are quickly changing its role. Packaging is getting active and intelligent, able to monitor and interact with food and environment and maintain food freshness for longer, writes Dr Milka Sokolović.
When consumers make decisions in the marketplace, they are voting with their wallets, writes Yaël Ossowski.
Without oversight, the implementation of the circular economy package entails a huge risk of Member States going into different directions and introducing barriers to the internal market, warns Virginia Janssens.
Plastic is everywhere, polluting our waters, choking marine wildlife, and even in our food and water. It is a problem of global proportions but an ambitious EU Plastics Strategy can create vital momentum, writes Pierre-Yves Cousteau.
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? With EU production of plastic waste showing no sign of slowing down and China – the world’s biggest importer of plastic waste – set to ban imports, we’re about to find out, argues Meadhbh Bolger.
The snail pace so far in terms of implementation of the EU Action Plan on the Circular Economy is embarrassing, write Anders Wijkman and Catia Bastioli.
Contrary to popular myths, most plastic pollution at sea occurs on the seabed and on beaches, not on the surface. If we want to secure the health of our oceans, we need to start looking at preventing marine plastic litter at source, writes Chris Sherrington.
The European Commission's Circular Economy package is a balanced and achievable proposal but what now counts are the steps taken by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers to ensure a global mindset, effective enforcement, and strong recycling ambition, write Maarten Labberton and Magdalena Garczynska.
SPECIAL REPORT / The sustainable sourcing of raw materials is a crucial phase at the beginning of the economic cycle. Yet this initial sourcing phase has so far been largely neglected by targeted EU resource efficiency policies. “But it’s time for change,”, said WWF, Unilever and the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE).
