REPLAY CONFERENCES 2024

In a context where environmental issues are at the heart of global concerns, packaging management and optimization play a crucial role. While reuse is an important part of companies' 3R strategies, it also raises a number of questions. Various forms and loops of reuse already exist, but how can we further improve them? How is the value chain conditioned by this reuse? These are just some of the questions raised at the conference. At the end of the day, the overriding question was: how do we assess the reuse of our packaging today? Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

In a context where environmental issues are at the heart of global concerns, packaging management and optimization play a crucial role. While recycling is an important part of companies' 3R strategies, it also raises a number of questions. Do regulations provide a sufficient framework for the management of our packaging, and how is the industry adapting? At the end of the day, there's one overriding issue: how much progress can be made in recycling?

In a context where environmental issues are at the heart of global concerns, packaging management and optimization play a crucial role. While reduction is an important part of companies' 3R strategies, it also raises a number of questions. The weight and volume of packaging, areas for progress and limits, the reduction of plastic use and the paradoxes it raises... these are just some of the topics discussed at this conference. With one overriding issue: what and how to reduce?

This conference brings together the heads of the main packaging institutions in France, Italy and Belgium to discuss the sector's current challenges. Discussions focused on attractiveness and recruitment, ethical and environmental challenges, and conflicts between regulations and recycling in the industry. Through national perspectives, experts shared their organizations' strategies for meeting the growing demands of sustainability and innovation.

Discover how packaging expert Juozas tackles the challenges of combining mandatory sustainability guidelines with the creation of functional, impactful packaging. Using concrete examples, you'll learn how sustainability can really improve brand perception - without falling into the trap of greenwashing!

As Africa emerges as a strategic market for the packaging sector, French and European companies are asking themselves some crucial questions: what are the real opportunities? What difficulties might they encounter? How do they navigate a business environment that is sometimes perceived as risky? This round table, moderated by Mounir Alhoz, Business France's Africa Coordinator, aims to provide an overview of packaging market trends in Africa. The speakers, Mr. Éric Echardour, Export Sales Manager Africa at MECAPACK, and Mr. Charles Diplo, Director of the Association des Industries d'Emballage de Côte d'Ivoire (APECI), shared practical experience and recommendations from the field. They discussed local issues, growth opportunities, and strategies for operating successfully in this market of the future.

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), through the collective organization of packaging manufacturers, fillers and distributors, is responsible for achieving the packaging recycling target. After more than 25 years, EPR organizations have also deployed a number of activities and tools to meet these targets and encourage eco-design of packaging.

The legislative and regulatory framework for packaging has been established, and now it's time to put it into practice: the first findings, the results of evaluations, and the adjustments and measures to come...

Traditional retail packaging is no longer adapted to the changing distribution methods of e-commerce and the challenges of ecological transition. Design, production, distribution, use and delivery... it's the whole chain that needs to be thought out or rethought to respond to this new paradigm of “sensible and reasonable” packaging, but also the strategy of a unified commerce.

For the first year, the Observatoire du réemploi et de la réutilisation has aggregated 2023 data on packaging reuse, based on declarations from all household and professional packaging sectors. This conference was an opportunity to decipher the figures, take stock of these initial results, and discuss the next steps for the coming years.