The VDMA Food processing and packaging machinery association has launched a new knowledge portal on sustainable packaging and packaging technologies. The portal provides information on sustainability and circular economy as well as on the functions and value of packaging. In addition, the website shows various packaging materials and their properties, an overview of relevant laws and regulations, as well as info graphics and expert interviews. Various company examples from the German packaging machinery industry show what sustainable solutions are already available today.

“We have noticed that the discussion about packaging, especially plastic packaging, is often emotional and not differentiated enough.

The images of dead fish in the sea with plastic in their stomachs and of littered beaches are alarming. But the subject is multilayered and complex and must therefore be viewed holistically. The new knowledge portal pack4sustainability.org follows this holistic approach. We want to look at things from different angles and perspectives, provide information with data, facts and clear graphics, and thus make a factual contribution to the plastics debate," commented Richard Clemens, Managing Director, VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association.

For more information: pack4sustainability.org