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European Paper Packaging Alliance

Acronym: EPPA

General Information

Identification Code: 871659237699-78
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Entity Form: AISBL
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 3/25/2020
Last Update: 4/4/2024
EP Accredited Number: 2

Mission & Interests

Goals: The European Paper Packaging Alliance is a not-for-profit food and foodservice packaging association. Our priorities are to find concrete solutions to increase recycling and to reduce carbon emissions of food and foodservice packaging without compromising food safety and human health protection. EPPA is committed to working with European policymakers to support these common priorities. The Alliance supports evidence-based policy making.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Consumers
  • Environment
  • Food safety
  • Public health
  • Single market
  • Trade
  • Trans-European Networks
Levels of Interest:
  • european
  • national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: EU Green Deal, Single Use Plastics Directive, ackaging and Packaging Waste Directive and the EU Waste Regulation in general are being followed.
Communication Activities: PUBLICATION: Ramboll’s new European Study: Single-use paper-based packaging in quick service restaurants is better for the environment than reusable tableware Study challenges common perception that reusable tableware has lower environmental impacts. It does not! A study released by the European Paper Packaging Association (EPPA) reveals that single-use paper-based food and drink packaging used in European quick service restaurants is better for the environment than reusable tableware. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been carried by Ramboll, the independent Danish consultants to the European Commission, and certified by TUV. The study used current primary data from the paper, packaging and foodservice industries to compare the environmental performance over a year of typical disposable and reusable food and drink containers used in a quick-service restaurant for in-store consumption. The Ramboll Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) found that, assuming realistic usage over a year, the energy consumption involved in the use phase of reusable plastic and traditional crockery, during in-store or out-sourced washing and drying, outweighed the environmental impact of single-use paper dishes. The baseline report reveals that reusable tableware generated 177% more CO2-e emissions than the paper-based single-use system, consumed 267% more freshwater, produced 132% more fine particulates matter, increased fossil depletion by 238% and terrestrial acidification by 72%. PUBLICATION: Report from Professor David McDowell, Emeritus Professor of Food Studies at the Ulster University completed and available. The European Paper Packaging Alliance’s (EPPA) members innovate and invest to offer sustainable, circular, renewable and recyclable packaging solutions for Europe’s modern food economy. EPPA fully support the EU’s aim to reduce plastics and fossil-based resources, achieve climate-neutrality and sustain healthy ecosystems. EPPA also supports the use of the Waste Hierarchy to achieve the best environmental outcomes, using holistic life cycle thinking. In 2020 EPPA asked Professor David McDowell, Emeritus Professor of Food Studies at the Ulster University, to conduct a review of the food hygiene challenges of replacing single use food service ware with reusable food service items. The report has now been completed and is available. It found that the transfer of foodborne disease remains a clear and present hazard to consumers and that “there are greater risks of cross contamination within “circular” reuse systems, than in the current “linear” single use systems.” The report indeed reviewed the risks of increased foodborne disease associated with any move to the wider use of reusable food service ware and systems in the absence of improved understanding and hygienic practices. Because reuse systems are inherently more complex than single use systems due to multi-location cleaning, sanitation, storage and transport, they lead to greater risks of cross contamination. Professor McDowell noted that banning or reducing the use of food service disposables, in the absence of radical significant and unprecedented changes in good hygiene practice, will lead to greater persistence and circulation of foodborne pathogens within the human food chain, and increased risks of human foodborne illness in our community.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Rue Montoyer 40
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office

Address: Rue Montoyer 40
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 3
Members F T E: 2.5
Info Members: EPPA has an Executive Committee and members. EPPA has internal working groups. For this moment about 6 persons are activley involved in EPPA, annex to other duties/jobs. 4 of the 6 people are invoved in activites as described under heading 9.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: SEDA International Packaging Group Huhtamäki Burgo Schisler Packaging Solutions Metsa Board Mayr-Melnhof Karton Paper Machinery Corporation Mc Donalds Sonoco RBI Ahlstrom Medac Novolex RdM
Organisation Members: Fiber Packaging Europe Circular Choises Coalition Together for Sustainable Packaging