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19/08/2009 Consumers and industry will suffer from change to French Packaging Decree
Brussels, 19 August 2009 - A change to packaging regulations in France risks negatively affecting consumers in that country and across the EU according to EUROPEN--The European Organization for Packaging and the Environment. It also risks eroding industry supply chain efficiencies in the... more >
19/08/2009 La révision du Décret français sur les emballages aura un impact négatif sur les consommateurs et sur le secteur
Bruxelles, 19 août 2009 - Une modification apportée à la réglementation en matière d’emballage en France risque d’affecter les consommateurs français et de toute l’Europe. C’est ce qu’affirme EUROPEN—L’Organisation européenne pour l’emballage et l’environnement. Cette... more >
09/07/2009 First guide to help corporate decision-making about packaging is published
Brussels, 9 July 2009 – A Western Europe without packaging would lead to a 15-fold rise in food waste, argue EUROPEN and ECR Europe. This telling anecdote is contained in Packaging in the Sustainability Agenda: A Guide for Corporate Decision Makers, their newly released guide designed to help... more >
10/03/2009 Groundbreaking Analysis of Packaging in European Shopping Baskets
The most comprehensive and wide ranging study of how much packaging a typical household shopping basket contains and what materials it is made of is published today by The European Shopping Baskets Program (ESB), a joint project of EUROPEN (The European Organization for Packaging and the... more >
10/03/2009 EU Data Debunks Common Assumptions on Waste
EU Member States Achieve Recycling Targets Ahead of Schedule Data released from the European Union contradicts widely held perceptions that packaging has led to a mountain of waste across Europe. Despite 40% growth in GDP in the nine year period from 1998 to 2006, the amount of packaging... more >