Autumn/Winter 2018
Introduction by the managing director
Introduction by the Managing Director
After the adoption of the new Waste Legislation, in Europe, but not only, especially during the second half of this year, the key word was PLASTIC. Do we need plastic packaging? Should we not just ban the use of certain products? Why don’t we just drink from the tap or use glass bottles like in the past? How can we stop the marine litter? The European Institutions tried to give answers to these questions via the proposed Singe Use Plastic legislation.
EXPRA news
EXPRA GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING, DECEMBER 5, BRUSSELS
On 5 December, EXPRA held its autumn General Assembly in Brussels, Belgium. During the meeting, EXPRA’s Managing Director Joachim Quoden summarised the organisation’s key achievements in 2018, noting that it has broadly fulfilled most of its objectives while EXPRA...
FEVE, FERVER, EXPRA AND EURIC JOIN FORCES FOR AN AMBITIOUS AND COMPARABLE MEASUREMENT POINT FOR GLASS RECYCLING
FEVE, FERVER, EXPRA and EuRIC are committed to increasing the quality and efficiency of the glass recycling value chain through separate collection, quality recycling and closed loop manufacturing of glass. To help achieve this, a single, harmonised, ambitious and...
EXPRA, PROSPA & EPRO WORKSHOP ON ECO MODULATION OF EPR FEES, OCTOBER 9, BRUSSELS
On 9 October, PROsPA (Producer Responsibility Organisations Packaging Alliance), EXPRA (Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance) and EPRO (European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations) co-organised an expert talk on the “Eco-modulation of...
News updates
UNDER THE CEFLEX INITIATIVE EXPRA ENDORSES THE NEW PLASTICS ECONOMY GLOBAL COMMITMENT
The Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA), togather with the other members of the CEFLEX consortium: companies, associations and organisations collaborating to enhance the performance of flexible packaging in the circular economy in Europe, endorses the...
EU CIRCULAR ECONOMY MISSION TO INDIA, SEPTEMBER 3 – 7, NEW DELHI
EXPRA has been invited again to be part of the EU delegation for another Circular Economy Mission, this time to India following missions to Chile, Colombia, China and South Africa. The Circular Economy Missions are a series of high-level political and business...
EC ‘VIRTUOUS CIRCLES’ MISSIONS TO MALTA, ROMANIA AND BULGARIA 30 NOVEMBER – 7 DECEMBER 2018
The missions followed the EC early warning report for 14 Member States identified as being at risk of missing the 2020 preparation for re-use/recycling target of 50% on municipal waste. These include: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary,...
SINGLE-USE PLASTICS: PRESIDENCY REACHES PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT WITH PARLIAMENT
On 19 December at 6.30 am a provisional political agreement on the SUP Directive was reached. It took 12,5 hours to get there and, against the odds, both the Austrian Presidency and Parliament managed to pull off the draft deal. The agreement will still have to be...
News from members
GREEN DOT CYPRUS LIMASSOL ENVIRONMENT AND RECYCLING FESTIVAL
The Limassol Environment and Recycling Festival, which took place on Saturday 6 October in Molos, Limassol, by Green Dot Cyprus in cooperation with the Municipalities of Larissa, was a great success.Once again, the Festival was embraced both by the world of...
VALIPAC (BELGIUM) NEW STYLE, NEW AMBITIONS
On October 25, Valipac celebrated its 20th anniversary. On this occasion, the management organization of industrial packaging has unveiled its new mission statement, ambitions and values for the coming years.The visual identity of the organization has also been...
ÇEVKO (TURKEY) ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANING WITH FOX TV
Media employees working for the Fox Group Networks carried out an environmental cleaning in collaboration with Kartal Municipality and ÇEVKO Foundation on 27th September at the Aydos Woods.Within the #21CFImpactWeek activities of Fox carried out simultaneously...
ECOPACK BULGARIA INVESTED BGN 1.45 MILLION IN A NEW TECHNOLOGY CENTER FOR PACKAGING WASTE PROCESSING
Ecopack Bulgaria invested BGN 1.45 million (742 000 Euro) in the construction of a new technology center. Part of it is a new installation for sorting of waste from plastic, metal and paper packaging and a new educational center for students in Sofia. T he Minister...
GREENPAK (MALTA) NEW BINS WITH SMART TECHNOLOGY ‘WILL MAKE OVERFLOWING SITES HISTORY’
Recycling cooperative GreenPak has announced plans to roll out bins equipped with smart technology that, it hopes, will make overflowing sites a thing of the past.iBiNs have the capability to monitor waste levels and feed information back to a central system which...
AFVALFONDS VERPAKKINGEN (THE NETHERLANDS) NEW MAGAZINE CIRCULAR PACKAGING
In November, Afvalfonds Verpakkingen released the first edition of the magazine Circulair Verpakken (Circular Packaging).The magazine informs the stakeholders about the good results and the many efforts and initiatives from producers in sustainable packaging, the...
HERRCO (GREECE) AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS AND INITIATIVES
The Hellenic Recovery Recycling Corporation (HERRCO) completing its 15 years of works and operating under an environmental sense of responsibility, continues its informative events for the public’s awareness for packaging recycling, mainly with following...
ECOEMBES (SPAIN) ‘1M2 FOR BEACHES AND SEAS’
‘1M2 FOR BEACHES AND SEAS’ (SPAIN), LIBERA´S ANNUAL CITIZEN SCIENCE CLEAN UP LITTER EVENT IN MARINE AREAS, EXPECTS HIGHER GROWTH IN 2018The Libera project, a creation of Spain’s flagship environmental NGO, SEO/Birdlife, in alliance with Ecoembes, will mobilize this...
RINKI (FINLAND) CONSUMER CAMPAIGN RAISES PUBLIC’S INTEREST IN PACKAGING RECYCLING
Finnish Packaging Recycling RINKI Ltd launched its second consumer campaign in the beginning of October in Finland. The campaign consists of several videos for social media and tv as well as radio spots.Rinki’s videos have had strong presence among Finnish...
CONAI (ITALY) SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018
In 2012, for the first time in its history, CONAI has decided to undertake a structured reporting process for its stakeholders, institutions and citizens to describe clearly and transparently the results achieved, progress, prospects growth for the industry.This is...