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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... )
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JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene
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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... )
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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... )
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Packaging sustanaibility: The time is now!
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 ( Read more... )
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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... )
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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... )
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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... )
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How to get exemption from the new Spanish plastic tax?
By demonstrating reusability or incorporating recycled material. ( Read more... )
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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... )
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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... )
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