ILIP HAS WELCOMED THE NEW ITALIAN LAW AIMED AT FIGHTING FOOD WASTE AND THE EU PLATFORM ON FOOD LOSSES AND FOOD WASTE (FLW)

ILIP, for over 10 years involved in the promotion of packaging sustainability, congratulates the promoters of the new Italian law against food waste and the EU FLW Platform.

BOLOGNA (10th August 2016) In the last days, food waste and food recovery were two central themes of the Italian Parliament and European Commission agendas bringing to the final approval in the Italian Senate of the new law aimed at fighting food waste and to the launch of the FLW Platform.

Fresh food and Food Service packaging manufacturer ILIP, welcomed the new Italian law and EU Platform that involve all the players operating in the food supply chain.

“We welcome this new law and platform aimed at fighting food waste, since at ILIP we recognize our role in supporting food processors, retailers and caterers to deliver safer food products and to minimize food waste – says Roberto Zanichelli, ILIP Sales & Marketing Director – whose economic and ethical impacts can no longer be ignored. It’s for these reasons that ILIP was the first food packaging manufacturer to join the Save Food project, the global initiative launched by F.A.O. in collaboration with Interpack/Messe Dusseldorf, whose purpose is to improve packaging efficiency to avoid food waste along the supply chain. A new approach that focuses on food waste reduction must take into account the role of packaging that should be considered as part of the solution thanks to its dual function of food protection and shelf life extension. This new approach could also bring changes in the current food production paradigm focusing more on food quality than quantity”.

The Italian legislation pursues to cut waste at each stage of the supply chain, from production, to processing, from distribution up to the table, through the achievement of priority goals including general waste reduction and recycling in the circular economy view, whilst the EU FLW Platform focuses more on food waste prevention.

Besides focusing on food waste reduction by designing and manufacturing new safer, convenient and innovative packaging solutions ILIP is at the forefront on recycling and environmental sustainability. The company was one of the first in Europe to produce food packaging made with bio-plastic and recycled PET and nowadays ILIP is vertically integrated in a real closed loop from post consumer PET water bottles recycling up to a new r-PET food packaging.

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