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MEET R3PACK'S PARTNERS

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WHY DOES R3PACK MATTER?

450 years

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is the timeframe needed for plastic to decompose in a landfill (DHL Trend Research, 2019)​

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41%

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of plastic packaging is recycled across Europe (Eurostat, 2019)

71%

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of consumers believe that manufacturers, industrials and brands are primarily responsible for reducing packaging (Citeo, 2020)

€75-112bn

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of plastic packaging material is lost from the economy each year (Ellen MacArthur, 2017)

 

36%

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of solid waste in EU cities stems from packaging (Ellen MacArthur, 2017) 

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14.4Mt

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of microplastics have found their way to the bottom of the world’s oceans (Barrett et al., 2020) 

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THE MISSION

"Revolutionising sustainable packaging"

The Horizon Europe project aims to tackling the challenge of revolutionizing sustainable packaging in alignment with the Green Deal’s objectives - carbon neutrality by 2050 and economically viable, 100% reusable or recyclable packaging in the EU market by 2030.

From 2022 to 2025, the 24 partners' goal is to secure a fast and extensive uptake of industrially relevant, cross-sectorial, cost-effective innovative technologies allowing for the immediate substitution of complex multilayer plastic packaging with high performing fiber-based packaging. These innovations will be deployed in parallel to economical, industrial and environmental optimisation of reuse schemes demonstrated at large scale.

OUR ACTION POINTS
REUSE + RETHINK = REDUCE

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REUSE

  • Standardisation of a food safety protocol for reusable packaging accross Europe

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  • Harmonisation of the washing process amongst European washing centers

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  • Optimisation of reuse scheme's economical and environmental performance

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  • Test and upscale of model through real-life demonstrations in about 30 retail shops in multiple EU countries

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  • Economic modelisation and life-cycle analysis to fine-tune the scheme's environmental cost-effectiveness 

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RETHINK

  • Identification and optimisation of the best technologies for fibre-based packaging solutions as alternatives to plastic packaging
     

  • Evaluation of solutions' environmental impact via a life cycle analysis and end-of-life simulation

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  • Evaluation of solutions' performance at industrial scale ​

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  • Test and upscale of model through real-life demonstration in about 30 retail shops in multiple EU countries

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  • Financial modelisation and cost optimisation

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