Watch | Packaging minimisation, refill, and reuse standards
Watch the recording from our recent workshop, where we discussed the standardisation process, best practices, and recent developments for solutions for packaging minimisation, refill, and reuse.
Presentation slides and additional resources are available below.
The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces measures for waste prevention including obligations to minimise packaging and increase/improve access to reuse and refill options.
Standards will play an essential role in implementing the goals of the PPWR, such as establishing measurements for minimising packaging, as well as requirements for refillable and reusable packaging.
Presentations
🗎 The PPWR standardisation context and latest developments
- Fanny Rateau, Senior Programme Manager – ECOS
🗎 Addressing food contact chemicals in standards: Insights from recent research
- Justin Boucher, Operations Director – Food Packaging Forum Foundation
🗎 Practical recommendations to promote reusable packaging in standardisation
- Iara Beekma, Head of Business Development – New Reuse Alliance
- Claudette Juska, Co-founder & Technical Director – The Global Alliance to Advance Reuse (PR3)
🗎 The European Standardisation System process and how civil society can be included
- Amina Aissani, Senior Programme Manager, Standardisation – ECOS
Additional resources
- (2025) Durability of reusable packaging
- (2025) Analysis – EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
- (2024) Recommendations for a standardisation request on packaging and packaging waste
ECOS gratefully acknowledges financial support from Plastic Solutions Fund and the Norwegian Retailers’ Environment Fund, supporting our work to prevent and reduce plastic consumption and pollution, through improved reuse and refill.
Views and opinions expressed belong to the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of our funding partners, who cannot be held responsible for them.
