Press Releases
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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 >
