In the midst of the packaging crisis, EPN launched SolvingPackaging.org to accelerate real solutions
Today's guest blog comes courtesy of the Environmental Paper Network. The original post can be found here.
Two years ago now, though it seems much longer than that, I traveled from the USA to Germany for a sustainable packaging conference organized by denkhausbremen and Environmental Paper Network – International. Over 60 people joined me, mostly from across Europe and the UK and also from China and Canada. We came together in a brightly-lit room in Bremen. On the first day there were advocates, and business people, government representatives, and one intrepid interpreter. The conference had a paper focus but the presentations and discussions moved fluidly between the impacts of packaging made of paper, plastic, and all kinds of materials. By the end of a session that was exclusively for NGO advocates on the second day, there was strong agreement that we needed to rapidly address…