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In our latest podcast, we discuss how growing demands on packaging functionality can be tackled and how companies can honour both their own sustainability commitments and consumer demands with David Clark, vice president of sustainability at Amcor, and Jeremy Wallach, partner at McKinsey & Company.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
An issue that is often overlooked in discussions about packaging sustainability and sourcing recyclates is social injustice - and with it human rights abuses. Alina Marm is not only head of global sustainability and circular economy at Siegwerk, but also a PhD researcher at the University College London, and she has been looking into this issue in-depth as part of her doctorate. She discusses challenges and possible steps to address the problem with Elisabeth Skoda. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
In our latest podcast, we revisit the topic of decarbonisation from a packaging perspective – a topic that is becoming ever more relevant and urgent. Sarah Laidler, senior consultant at the Carbon Trust speaks to Elisabeth Skoda about the complexities around decarbonisation, the UN treaty to end plastic waste and how this ties in with carbon, the impact of different packaging materials and much more. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
In our latest podcast, we take a closer look at Extended Producer Responsibility. EPR policies generally shift the waste management cost or physical collection partially or fully from local governments to producers. Elisabeth Skoda explores recent developments, sustainability issues EPR can help to address and challenges it can pose to businesses, and how these can be overcome. with Gillian Carside-Wight, consulting director at Aura. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
CELAB Europe is a collaboration across the self-adhesive label value chain, aiming to create greater circularity by promoting the recycling of release liner and matrix in Europe.Frances Butler speaks to Ophelie Gourdou, project co-ordinator at CELAB Europe, Herma's Ralf Drache, who is also chairman of CELAB Europe, and CCL's Marika Knorr of CCL, who is also communication WS leader at CELAB Europe, to find out more about the collaboration, achievements and challenges of current recycling solutions and how brand owners could play an important part in future plans.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
The world faces a plastic waste problem. Joint-up thinking is needed to address this considerable challenge. Clem Ugorji is the founder and lead advisor at Circularium Africa Advisory, a partnership which works to join up policies, programmes and partnerships to enable growth and sustainable development, and a consultant to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP). He discusses problems and solutions to the challenges the world and the industry is facing with Elisabeth Skoda. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
KIND, part of the Mars family, has announced that it is utilising materials sourced from advanced recycling to package its snack bars, aiming to reduce the amount of virgin plastics in its packaging portfolio. Elisabeth Skoda speaks to Liz Jacobsen, who is global technical sustainability director at KIND to discuss how the development of the material, the challenges and opportunities around creating recyclable packaging from recycled materials, and KIND's wider sustainability strategies.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
NEXTLOOPP, the overall winner of Packaging Europe’s 2021 Sustainability Awards, set out to close the loop on polypropylene by creating food-grade recycled PP from post-consumer packaging.Professor Edward Kosior, the founder and creator of NEXTLOOPP speaks to Elisabeth Skoda about the project’s work, roadblocks to plastics recycling and the impact of regulations and shares the latest updates on trials with major brands. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
The world faces a range of complex sustainability challenges, and creative minds, as well as financial commitment, are needed to address these. The 100+ Accelerator programme was founded in 2018 with AB InBev and it has set itself the goal to fund and pilot sustainable innovation by giving start-ups a helping hand. Elisabeth Skoda speaks with Carolina Garcia, who is is Sustainability and Innovation Director at AB InBev, and Co-creator of 100+ Accelerator, to find out more.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
Earlier this year, AIPIA (the Active and Intelligent Packaging Industry Association) and Packaging Europe entered a strategic partnership, aiming to accelerate the uptake of smart packaging innovation.A few months into the collaboration, Elisabeth Skoda catches up with Eef de Ferrante, managing director at AIPIA, and Andrew Manly, AIPIA’s communications director, to discuss the collaboration and the role that smart packaging can play when it comes to reducing food waste, brand protection, fighting counterfeiting and market diversion, driving supply chain efficiencies, as well as boosting consumer engagement and recycling rates. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
Packaging Europe's Global Packaging Innovation Forum event helped spark a collaboration between Blue Box Partners and H.B. Fuller, which resulted in a series of dedicated sessions, the Innovation Academies. At these events, partners across the value chain work together on co-designing tomorrow’s packaging solutions. Elisabeth Skoda explores the power of collaboration and takes a closer look at these co-designing events with founders Daphné Deledicq, Chief Innovation Officer at Blue Box partners and Elizabeth Staab, Rigid Packaging Sustainability Manager at H.B. Fuller. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
New rules governing the placement and promotion of HFSS foods (high in fat, sugar and salt) will come into force in the UK in October 2022, changing the way these products can be sold and promoted in-store. This will impact manufacturers, brand owners, retailers and packaging producers. Elisabeth Skoda speaks to Mark Patterson, who is Vice President Global Packaging Solutions at DHL, to get his take on how this might affect the industry.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe represents the interests of consumers and producers of non-alcoholic beverages across Europe and has also set itself ambitious sustainability targets with its Circular Packaging Vision 2030.Elisabeth Skoda discusses progress made towards this vision, the state of the market today as well as plans and goals with UNESDA’s director general Nicholas Hodac.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
Certified B Corporation Mr Green Africa sets out to have a sustainable, long-term social, environmental and economic impact through the collection, conversion and selling of post-consumer waste. Dow recently invested in the company to enable further diversion of plastic waste and to help close the loop. Elisabeth Skoda speaks to Dow's Adwoa Coleman and Mr Green Africa's Keiran Smith to learn more. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
The success of initiatives set out to boost recycling rates hinges on recycling capacities and the availability of recycled plastics, so recyclers play a key role. Elisabeth Skoda discusses industry challenges, trends and solutions with Ton Emans, president at Plastics Recyclers Europe, and Paolo Glerean, chairman at RecyClass.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
The German packaging institute dvi sets out to connect players from across the packaging value chain with the aim to initiate innovative and sustainable approaches for creating what it describes as "good packaging". Managing director Kim Cheng discusses notable industry developments in the last year and takes a look ahead to the coming year with Elisabeth Skoda.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
Flexible packaging offers great functionality, but also faces some sustainability challenges. Justine Hanlon, H.B. Fuller’s Global Marketing Manager for flexible materials, discusses the latest developments and innovations in flexible packaging and adhesives and takes a look at what to expect in the year to come with Elisabeth Skoda.We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
Martina Wagner, Constantia Flexibles’ Group Sustainability Manager, discusses the sustainability potential and challenges of flexible packaging and its role when it comes to preventing food waste with Elisabeth Skoda. We also take a look at the recently released Packaging Waste Directive. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
As the e-commerce sector keeps growing, so are the demands on packaging. In our latest Sustainability Perspectives podcast, we look at the latest trends and developments in sustainability and beyond, the impact of changing legislation and consumer expectations and how this influences brands’ actions. We also explore concrete solutions and future developments. Elisabeth Skoda speaks to Tania Montesi, who is Global E-Commerce Manager at H.B. Fuller. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.
Sustainability demands on flexible packaging, both plastic and paper, have changed over the years. In our latest Sustainability Perspectives podcast, Mondi Group's Fabio Peyer discusses how different requirements on packaging can be balanced, how to address the challenges of designing for recycling and incorporating recycled content, and how the company plans on reaching the goal of having 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable products by 2025. We have a new podcast coming out at least once a month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.