All Circular economy (Sustainable Packaging Summit) articles
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ArticleCircularity - LinkedIn LIVE Panel
In the latest LinkedIn Live panel of the year, as part of the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2024 series, we take a deep dive into the topic of Circularity.
We will be asking vital questions such as: What is the pivotal role of safe and sustainable chemical innovation? How do we meet PPWR targets? And what is the forecast for recycled content; how do we meet requirements; what technologies do we need to focus on and fund? -
ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Communicating your decarbonization efforts confidently in today’s world
Vivien McKewen explores how has the carbon conversation has changed in recent years, and the implications, featuring insights from packaging manufacturers, FMCG companies and the end consumer. Finally, she explains: how to be F.A.C.T.U.A.L in your communication.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: The role of LCAs in substantiating sustainability claims
Barbar Dunin explores the value that life cycle analysis (LCA) can provide in supporting sustainability claims, amid increasing regulatory and consumer pressure to avoid greenwashing.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: How sustainable packaging influences consumers
Sustainable packaging trends like recyclable materials, minimalist packaging, and reusable pack design help manufacturers reduce waste and, in many cases, enhance brand perception. However, thoughtful execution is needed to maintain purchase motivation and brand consistency.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: The role of certification in advancing the use of recycled plastics
Chain of custody standards have used mass balance and book & claim systems to bring about change across a wide range of supply chains including renewable energy, responsible palm oil, sustainable forestry and more. In this session, we’ll learn how new standards are leveraging these proven methods to help advance the use of recycled plastics.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Prevented Ocean Plastic: A transformative approach to pollution in developing countries
Marine plastic pollution is one of the most catastrophic manifestations of the environmental problems associated with packaging. Prevented Ocean Plastics is a new and, we believe, potentially transformative program that’s addressing the crisis in an innovative and scalable way. Raffi Schieir (Director of Prevented Ocean Plastic) and David Jakubovich (Director and Founder of JS&IC) tell us more about the initiative, its potential impacts, and their learnings to date.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Compositional analysis of household waste
CEFLEX and Petcore have collaborated in large-scale research analysing the composition of post-consumer waste. Dana Mosora (CEFLEX) and Raphaël Jaumotte (Petcore) unpack the implications for efforts to drive up recycling rates in plastic packaging.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Closing reflections
Key takeaways from the Sustainable Packaging Summit.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: HolyGrail 2.0: What’s the future for digital watermarking?
Having hosted the HolyGrail 2.0 member meeting on the previous day, the Summit gives a public platform to this ground-breaking collaboration to discuss the progress of the project, next steps, and the future of the Initiative in the context of an open, competitive market for facilitating a circular economy in packaging.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Adhesives perspectives on the journey to circularity
Bostik’s Sylvie Despret assesses the impact of adhesives in enabling sustainability advancements in packaging, the latest technologies on the market, with the example of the Wash-off PSA Labels, and Laminating adhesives for flexible packaging, and, in the context of latest market trends and upcoming regulatory demands, the challenges that the next generation of adhesives will need to meet.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Circular Foodpack project update
Fraunhofer IVV’s Nelly Freitag provides updates on the European Horizon 2020 project Circular Foodpack.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Global insights on circular plastics
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 international structures and harmonization could be beneficial.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Keynote (Amazon’s Thais Blumer)
Speaker: Thais Blumer, Head of Sustainable Packaging Europe at Amazon
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Tom Szaky - solutions for right now and the future
Join us for a discussion with Tom Szaky, Founder & CEO of TerraCycle, and author of The Future of Packaging. Tom will pull back the curtain on how the current trends and models of production and consumption are driving challenges in sustainable packaging design and responsible waste management. He will also discuss why a collaborative approach - involving all actors in the supply chain - is crucial for driving the systematic changes we need to create a more circular future for packaging.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Exploring the boundaries of advanced mechanical recycling
Nicholas Lelli explores the potential for mechanical recycling to become more efficient and produce more high-quality material. He we share examples of how technologies and initiatives that the Alliance to End Plastic Waste has gained experience with (e.g. ValueFlex for high quality recycling processes, digital watermarking and AI for advanced sorting, Quality of Recyclates standards for value chain alignment and demand creation, Waste decontamination for sensitive applications) can support this goal. Finally, he highlights the critical challenges the Alliance identifies in the context of upcoming legislation and existing infrastructure.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Unlocking investment for a circular economy
This panel considers how strategic alignment between industry, investors, and EPR can remove roadblocks to a circular economy.