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Since the 1970s packaging has been one of the lynchpins of environmental policy in north-west Europe. Packaging is something we all discard every day and in this case it has focused minds. For the last 10 years CE Delft has sought to deploy this awareness to design practical solutions for the packaging issue, with clear benefits environmentally as well as economically. We’ve done so from the angle of both policy-making and policy implementation. Along the way it’s become clear that besides its potential environmental impacts, packaging is also an efficient way of preventing product spoilage, with the avoided environmental damage that implies. And because this latter impact is far greater than that of the packaging itself (by a factor of 3 to 100) in our work for a growing number of clients we explicitly analyse packaging in tandem with the product packaged. There are often greater environmental gains to be achieved by addressing the impact of the product, moreover, and at considerably less effort. Another area in which we’ve specialised in recent few years is the (re-) emergent issue of litter.

Clients

For over 10 years we’ve been providing research and consultancy services on environmental aspects of product packaging. Our clients include the Dutch Environment ministry, SVM.PACT (packaging industry), the Dutch Association for Environmental Management of Plastics Packaging (VMK), Campina, Corus, the Association of Netherlands Municipalities, the Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment, the Netherlands Soft Drinks Association (NFI), Roteb, Plastic Europe and the European Aluminium Association.

For more information, please contact Maartje Sevenster.