Success Story – Closing Packaging loops to generate economic and ecological added value

Sustainable Materials and recyclable packaging systems are already being used in many areas. In an industrial context, such considerations are still rare – this project aims to change this and contribute to a rethink.

For a long time, little attention was paid to the packaging of industrial products, and ecological optimization was not a primary focus. Consequently, there is significant potential for greening and economizing the supply chains of numerous industrial companies in this area.

A joint project involving the COMET Centres CDP and Pro²Future, the universities TU Graz and WU Vienna, as well as the company EVVA Sicherheitstechnologie GmbH, addressed this potential and posed the research question of the extent to which the conversion of product packaging from plastic to other materials, such as cardboard, and the recycling of packaging (i.e., production, delivery, return, reuse, etc.) offer economic and ecological added value.

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