EUROPEAN CONFECTIONERY INDUSTRY PONDERS DEVELOPING GREENER PACKAGING
August 1st, 2012
BY MARK ROWE
THERE is consumer demand in Europe for making confectionery packaging more sustainable, but in the European Union (EU) manufacturers are motivated more in going green by EU legislation.
They are developing ways of reducing, reusing and recycling packaging, and changing its composition to help. Under EU packaging and packaging waste legislation, targets vary across Europe: the original EU12 -which includes the UK - have all met or surpassed recycling targets for 60% glass, 60% paperboard, 50% metals and 22.15% plastics. Greece, Ireland and Portugal ...
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