Packaging Europe's Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In January 2025, the former Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) and EXTR:ACT merged to form the Food and Beverage Carton Alliance (FBCA) with the aim to provide a uniform platform for food and beverage cartons. Recently appointed director general Sebastian Bartels speaks to Elisabeth Skoda about the role cartons can play in a circular economy as well as the alliance’s work and future plans.

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
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Legislation is driving an urgent need to scale up reusable packaging systems. What levers are available to us to shift from limited pilots to volume deployment? Noam Assael talks to Tim Sykes about the lessons Avery Dennison has drawn from market activities and collaborative projects - covering the wider preconditions for scale-up, the crucial need to optimize profitability, and why it's necessary to mobilize the consumer as a key stakeholder in systemic change.

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

Paperization has gained increasing traction in recent years. Elisabeth Skoda speaks to SWM International’s Philippe Ragot, who shares insights into how technology and collaboration can and already are fuelling advances and discusses the innovation processes that enable these results. 

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

In our latest podcast, we revisit the topic of decarbonisation from a packaging perspective – a topic that is becoming ever more relevant and urgent. Sarah Laidler, senior consultant at the Carbon Trust speaks to Elisabeth Skoda about the complexities around decarbonisation, the UN treaty to end plastic waste and how this ties in with carbon, the impact of different packaging materials and much more. 

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

In our latest podcast, we take a closer look at Extended Producer Responsibility. EPR policies generally shift the waste management cost or physical collection partially or fully from local governments to producers. 

Elisabeth Skoda explores recent developments, sustainability issues EPR can help to address and challenges it can pose to businesses, and how these can be overcome. with Gillian Carside-Wight, consulting director at Aura. 

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

CELAB Europe is a collaboration across the self-adhesive label value chain, aiming to create greater circularity by promoting the recycling of release liner and matrix in Europe.
Frances Butler speaks to Ophelie Gourdou, project co-ordinator at CELAB Europe, Herma's Ralf Drache, who is also chairman of CELAB Europe, and CCL's Marika Knorr of CCL, who is also communication WS leader at CELAB Europe, to find out more about the collaboration, achievements and challenges of current recycling solutions and how brand owners could play an important part in future plans.

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

What are the key sustainability challenges in packaging, and in particular labelling this year? What does the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Revision mean for the sector? What are the implications for reuse and refill packaging models and downstream demands for innovations, including the wash-off label space?
Packaging Europe's Tim Sykes speaks to Avery Dennison's Adis-Sophie Frémont and Rob Groen in 't Wout, and Cory Connors, host of Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors, to find out more.

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

The world faces a plastic waste problem. Joint-up thinking is needed to address this considerable challenge.
Clem Ugorji is the founder and lead advisor at Circularium Africa Advisory, a partnership which works to join up policies, programmes and partnerships to enable growth and sustainable development, and a consultant to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP). He discusses problems and solutions to the challenges the world and the industry is facing with Elisabeth Skoda. 

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

Flexible packaging offers great functionality, but also faces some sustainability challenges. Justine Hanlon, H.B. Fuller’s Global Marketing Manager for flexible materials, discusses the latest developments and innovations in flexible packaging and adhesives and takes a look at what to expect in the year to come with Elisabeth Skoda.

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe. 

KIND, part of the Mars family, has announced that it is utilising materials sourced from advanced recycling to package its snack bars, aiming to reduce the amount of virgin plastics in its packaging portfolio. 
Elisabeth Skoda speaks to Liz Jacobsen, who is global technical sustainability director at KIND to discuss how the development of the material, the challenges and opportunities around creating recyclable packaging from recycled materials, and KIND's wider sustainability strategies.

Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.