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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.

Paper and Paper Packaging
Waste Regulation
Life Cycle
Analysis
Food Safety
and Hygiene
Our Latest
Study

The advantages of paper packaging

Paper packaging is renewable

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

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.

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

Reports
16 May 2023

Report Professor David McDowell: Food hygiene challenges in replacing single use food service ware with reusable food service items

The European Paper Packaging Alliance’s (EPPA) members innovate and invest to offer sustainable, circular, renewable and recyclable...
Reports
16 May 2023

New life cycle analysis shows that recyclable, paper-based packaging used in the quick service food delivery and takeaway sector offers significant environmental advantages

A full life cycle assessment (LCA), commissioned by the European Paper Packaging Alliance...
Reports
16 May 2023

Reusable packaging in takeaway services is more burdensome on the environment than single-use paper packaging finds new Meta-Study

Ramboll has been appointed by the European Paper Packaging Alliance as technical consultant to conduct a meta-study assessment...

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