OPINION

Challenges of Extended Producer Responsibility in commercial and industrial packaging

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Challenges of Extended Producer Responsibility in commercial and industrial packaging


Recently, there has been much talk of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), which calls on the producer to prevent, manage and pay for the processing and recovery of everything that can become waste ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
The essential Master's degree to lead the packaging industry

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

The essential Master's degree to lead the packaging industry


In a world characterised by rapid technological advances, global crises and more stringent packaging legislation, the industry faces unprecedented challenges ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
New sustainable materials look to 2025

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

New sustainable materials look to 2025


The sustainability of packaging materials has been at the centre of the industry for years, but especially in recent times, when legislation at European and Spanish level points to 2050 as the year by which climate neutrality must be achieved, according to the European Green Deal. ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene


The sustainability of packaging is no longer an option, it is a legal obligation, and its compliance affects not only the manufacture of packaging, but also its end of life and its management as waste


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
Together for packaging

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Together for packaging


In 1995, ITENE and y PressGraph mediaGroup joined forces to publish the first issue of InfoPack magazine. Our research centre had started its activity only one year before and we were only 4 people in the team - today we already count 185 professionals -. ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
Royal Decree on Packaging and Packaging Waste: implications for industry and next steps

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Royal Decree on Packaging and Packaging Waste: implications for industry and next steps


On 27 December, the Royal Decree on Packaging and Packaging Waste was approved. We already informed of various drafts of this decree during 2022, which we have been analysing in previous articles. Thus, the entry into force, on 1 January, of the plastic tax established in the Law on Waste and Contaminated Land for a Circular Economy, is joined by this new regulation with many implications for the industry that uses or manufactures packaging ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
The three key objectives of the draft European Packaging Waste Regulation

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

The three key objectives of the draft European Packaging Waste Regulation


The European Commission has taken a further step towards achieving climate neutrality by 2050, as set out in the European Green Deal, with the publication on 30 November of the draft European Packaging Waste Regulation. ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
How to get exemption from the new Spanish plastic tax?

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

How to get exemption from the new Spanish plastic tax?


By demonstrating reusability or incorporating recycled material. ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
ITENE will host in 2024 the 24th edition of IAPRI's World Packaging Conference

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

ITENE will host in 2024 the 24th edition of IAPRI's World Packaging Conference


In 2024 ITENE will celebrate 30 years of activity and during the celebration of this event we will host the 24th edition of IAPRI's World Packaging Conference ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
ITENE gathers 450 professionals in a forum on the 5 keys of the Royal Decree

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

ITENE gathers 450 professionals in a forum on the 5 keys of the Royal Decree


More than 450 professionals from 357 companies belonging to 18 industrial sectors met on 5 and 6 July in a hybrid conference on the future Royal Decree on Packaging and Packaging Waste that ITENE organised in Madrid with the collaboration of Hispack and that, in its online version, had more than 300 attendees connected synchronously in different sessions of the event. ( Read more... )


CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene