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The Packaging Challenges in the Food Industry
Martin Hofler
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Functions of Packaging
Secondary
• Sales
• Promotion
• Service
• Guarantee
Primary
• Protection
• Containment/Collation
• Preserve
• Transport
Preserve, Protect, Transport, Inform
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Benefits of Plastic Packaging
Light weightConservation
&
Preservation
Convenient
&
Innovative
Safe
&
Hygienic
Cost-effective versus other packaging materials
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Blue Planet Effect
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Packaging Concerns
“From next year, we will assess packaging as part of our ranging decisions, and if it’s excessive or
inappropriate, we reserve the right not to list it.” - Dave Lewis, Tesco
Group CEO
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Preferred Packaging Material
Plastic packaging: How are
supermarkets doing?
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Governmental Policy
• European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy
− All plastic packaging on the EU market will be recyclable by 2030, the
consumption of single-use plastics will be reduced and the intentional use of
microplastics will be restricted.
• Single Use Plastics Directive 2019 – Reduce Marine Litter
Headlines:
− A ban on selected single-use products made of plastic for which alternatives exist on the
market: cotton bud sticks, cutlery, plates, straws, stirrers, sticks for balloons, as well as cups,
food and beverage containers made of expanded polystyrene and on all products made of
oxo-degradable plastic;
− Measures to reduce consumption of food containers and beverage cups made of plastic and
specific marking and labelling of certain products;
− Extended Producer Responsibility schemes covering the cost to clean-up litter, applied to
products such as tobacco filters and fishing gear;
− 90% separate collection target for plastic bottles by 2029 (77% by 2025) and the introduction
of design requirements to connect caps to bottles, as well as target to incorporate 25% of
recycled plastic in PET bottles as from 2025 and 30% in all plastic bottles as from 2030.
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Origin Green Packaging Targets
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28 190
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Reduce PackagingMaterial & Increasethe Recyclability ofPackaging Material
CertifiedSustainablePackaging
OtherPackaging
Targets
Number of Origin Green Member Packaging Targets
120
Packaging
Targets
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Origin Green & Repak Packaging Seminar
100+ Origin Green Member
Key Irish Stakeholders International Experts Share Experiences
Industry Collaboration
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Origin Green Packaging Target
Most favoured option
Least favoured option
• Use fewer packaging materials, in any
one pack, to allow for ease of recycling.
• Use mono materials where possible.
• Clearly communicate the pack material
and recycling message.
• Purchase packaging materials that are:
o sourced from sustainable materials
(e.g., FSC); and/or
o made from recycled content.
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Packaging Target Support
1. Packaging Tracker
• Define a packaging baseline.
• Identify type and volume of
packaging used.
2. Packaging Clinics
• Address packaging concerns on a
one-to-one basis with a Repak
Packaging Technologist
• >35 members participated
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