Policy Briefings

Zero Waste Europe: Food packaging: safety first

A new Zero Waste Europe policy briefing, Food Packaging: Safety first – Towards toxic-free and future-proof packaging lays out the shortcomings related to the current regulation of chemicals in food packaging, and provides recommendations to achieve toxic-free and future-proof food packaging. The briefing highlights inconsistencies in the current Food Contact Materials (FCMs) Regulation that compromise its … Zero Waste Europe: Food packaging: safety first

ZWE: Ensuring safe recycled content in food packaging: ambition vs reality

A new report from Zero Waste Europe focuses on safe recycled content in food packaging. When it comes to Food Contact Materials (FCMs), the use of recycled content potentially creates new pathways through which humans can be exposed to hazardous chemicals in contaminated recycled material flows. Today, recycling technologies have not proved to be able to … ZWE: Ensuring safe recycled content in food packaging: ambition vs reality

ZWE: Marrying Safety with Sustainability in Food Packaging – Briefing for Businesses

A new briefing by the civil society organisation Zero Waste Europe – ‘Marrying safety with sustainability in food packaging – Briefing for businesses’ – highlights that for food packaging to be sustainable, it must be safe, and that means making sure it’s free from harmful chemicals. The briefing states that while society is pushing for a … ZWE: Marrying Safety with Sustainability in Food Packaging – Briefing for Businesses

ZWE: Towards Safe Food Contact Materials in a Toxic-Free Circular Economy

This policy briefing looks into the threat that FCMs poses both to human health and the environment, with a focus on food packaging, and highlights the opportunity for ambitious reform of the EU policy framework which would contribute to the transition towards safe, cost-efficient and reusable packaging that protects human health and guarantees a toxic-free … ZWE: Towards Safe Food Contact Materials in a Toxic-Free Circular Economy

SAFE: Recycled Plastic in Food Contact Materials

Drawing attention to health risks associated with recycled plastics in FCMs and the shortcomingscof relevant legislation, SAFE would like to urge the European Commission to use the upcoming FCMs Regulations revision to ensure European consumers’ health.