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The European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA) is a not-for-profit association promoting sustainability and circularity in the food and food service packaging sectors.

EPPA’s priority is to provide paper-based, low carbon and health-safe products with a low environmental impact and improved recycling solutions to the European population.

EPPA supports science-based EU policies that foster the sustainable and efficient use of resources, and recognises the major role that packaging, as an essential infrastructure, can play in the achievement of that common objective.

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Paper and Paper Packaging
Waste Regulation
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Life Cycle
Analysis
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Food Safety
and Hygiene
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The advantages of paper packaging

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Paper packaging is renewable

90% of the fibres used to create paper packaging come from sustainably
managed European forests.

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Paper packaging is recyclable

Paper packaging is easy to recycle and has the highest recycling rate among all packaging materials in the EU at 82%, according to the European Commission.

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Paper packaging contributes to waste reduction

Paper packaging contributes to food waste reduction through promoting fit to portion packaging and extending shelf life.

In Numbers

For dine-in in quick service restaurants, compared to paper-based single-use systems, reuse systems:

Generate

2.8

times more CO₂
equivalent emissions

Consume

3.4

times more
freshwater

Produce

2.2

times more fine
particulate matter

For takeaway in quick service restaurants, compared to paper-based single-use systems, reuse systems

Generate

91

additional CO₂
equivalent emissions

Consume

64

additional
freshwater

Produce

129

more fine
particulate matter

Latest News

Fibre Packaging Food EUPosition Papers
27 September 2023

EPPA’s Response to the Claims Presented by Zero Waste Europe, Eunomia, and Reloop in the Publication “Unveiling the Complexities: Exploring LCAs of Reusable Packaging in the Take-Away Sector”

Position Paper: EPPA's Response to the Claims Presented by Zero Waste Europe, Eunomia, and Reloop in the Publication "Unveiling the Complexities: Exploring LCAs of Reusable Packaging in the Take-Away Sector"…
Paper packaging reusable EPPA Director GeneralNews
25 September 2023

Paper packaging is going to be replaced by plastic?

We took to the streets of Brussels to ask consumers, business owners and employees and delivery drivers how would you feel if paper packaging were to be replaced by plastic,…
Fibre Packaging Food EUNewsPosition Papers
14 September 2023

Statement from EPPA on the report published by the Rethink Plastic Alliance, Zero Waste Europe, the European Environmental Bureau, Fern, and the Environmental Paper Network on 12 September 2023

Once again, NGOs whose mission seems to be to support the reusable plastics industry at all costs, have issued a report based on demonstrably false claims and assumptions. Such misleading…

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