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Reduce, Reuse, Rethink PACKaging: towards novel fiber-based packaging and reuse schemes uptake

Descripción del proyecto

La búsqueda de un mejor material de envasado

Más de un tercio de los residuos sólidos proceden de los residuos de envases, siendo el plástico el principal material de envasado empleado en el comercio minorista de alimentos en Europa. El equipo del proyecto R3PACK, financiado con fondos europeos, calcula que 6 aplicaciones de plástico representarán el 86 % de la reducción de residuos de aquí a 2040. Su investigación sugiere que la mayor ventaja puede proceder del uso de envases multicapa y multimaterial. Aprovechar tecnologías sofisticadas que permiten el uso de envases multicapa respaldará el plan de R3PACK para reducir, reutilizar y repensar los envases. El proyecto facilitará un marco para que la Unión Europea garantice la seguridad alimentaria de los envases reutilizables y de los métodos de lavado. Las empresas obtendrán la orientación que necesitan para elegir la tecnología de envasado adecuada para sus productos.

Objetivo

Packaging waste accounts for 36% of solid waste in EU towns, with plastics being the most widely used material in European food retail, covering 37% of food sold. Recent research shows that important reductions can be achieved by focusing on six plastic applications that are projected to account for 86% of the total reduction achievable by 2040, with multilayer/multimaterial packaging constituting the biggest untapped potential.
Consumer awareness of packaging waste and their environmental and social externalities is driving change, while major brands encounter difficulties in self-regulating, as they lack innovative solutions immediately applicable for their most complex packaging.
Retailers, as key actors in the food value chain, can choose to lead the transition by promoting a fundamental rethinking of their delivery chains.
R3PACK will contribute to Reduce, Reuse, Rethink PACKaging by securing fast and extensive uptake of industrially relevant, cross-sectorial, cost-effective innovative technologies allowing immediate substitution of complex multilayer plastic packaging with high performing fiber-based packaging and economical, industrial and environmental optimisation of reuse schemes demonstrated at large scale and transnationally in 3 EU countries by 2 major retailers, covering the needs of 13 different food product types.
R3PACK will moreover offer a clear pathway towards a normalized framework for reusable packaging’s food safety and for reusable packaging’s washing methods, that will serve as reference at EU level.
R3PACK will finally offer decision support tools ready to be used by businesses to choose the right packaging solution (between optimized reuse schemes and developed R3PACK paper-based packaging) meeting closely the needs of their products.

Régimen de financiación

IA - Innovation action

Coordinador

ARWIN
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 864 591,88
Dirección
13 RUE AMBROISE THOMAS
75009 PARIS
Francia

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Pyme

Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.

Región
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Tipo de actividad
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 1 235 131,25

Participantes (22)

Socios (1)