Food packaging is an essential part of European food system

 

Developing a truly regenerative and circular economy, improving the circularity of post-consumer packaging and reducing residual waste is best achieved by full harmonization across EU Member States and by providing incentivization for the creation of recycling infrastructures, education and support to consumers so they actively recycle.

Thomasine Kamerling is EVP of Sustainability and Communications at Huhtamaki.

Ensuring the materials used in packaging are recycled and generate additional value within the wider economy (not limited to a narrow packaging-only loop) should be an absolutely fundamental objective of the revised packaging and packaging waste legislation. If gotten right, we see the proposed Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation supporting the EU’s Green deal and the single market by stimulating material and resource efficiency  and the regeneration value which in turn will likely affect future investment and innovation decisions in Europe. (...)