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20 Feb 2024
Preserving flavour and curbing waste – the Steel solution to food sustainability
Food waste is a global crisis with severe environmental consequences, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and depleting precious resources. Astonishingly, 46% of food waste is generated during t...
12 Feb 2024
The Steel solution to reducing food packaging waste
The food packaging industry has a pivotal role to play in reducing the amount of packaging waste sent to landfill. Despite the growing urgency surrounding plastic waste pollution, a staggering 37% of...
09 Oct 2023
Reducing food waste with Steel Packaging: a sustainable solution for a more circular future
As a proven packaging format and a model material for a circular economy, steel packaging is set to play a vital role in the fight against food waste. And make no mistake, reducing food waste is one o...
05 May 2022
Why involving consumers is key to closing the loop of Steel Packaging recycling
By Alexis Van Maercke
Optimised separate collection is our preferred route to increase both the quantity and quality of recycling, as extensively covered in our latest report Why Steel Recycles For...
29 Apr 2022
The importance of defining quality standards for steel packaging scrap
By Alexis Van Maercke
On 1st February during our conference From Vision to Reality; Closing the loop on steel packaging, we launched our new report How to recycle steel – Why steel packaging recy...
19 Apr 2022
Why pre-treatment before incineration is a pre-requisite for increased recycling
By Alexis Van Maercke
Our conference From Vision to Reality; Closing the loop on steel packaging on 1st February, launched our new report How to recycle steel – Why steel packaging recycles forev...
07 Apr 2022
Why we recommend strengthening EU policy to ensure no recyclable packaging goes to landfill
By Alexis Van Maercke
On 1st February during our conference From Vision to Reality; Closing the loop on steel packaging, we launched our new report How to recycle steel – Why steel packaging recy...
04 Apr 2022
Why optimised separate collection of steel packaging waste is APEAL’s preferred route for increased recycling
By Alexis Van Maercke
On 1st February we launched our new report How to recycle steel – Why steel packaging recycles forever, at a conference organised in partnership with Parliament Magazine, Fr...
04 Apr 2022
The importance of second overband magnets in sorting plants
By Alexis Van Maercke
On 1st February during our conference From Vision to Reality; Closing the loop on steel packaging, we launched our new report How to recycle steel – Why steel packaging recy...
24 Feb 2022
From vision to reality: closing the loop on steel packaging in Europe
by Alexis Van Maercke, Secretary General of APEAL
“Our Circular economy agenda is all about keeping products and materials for as long as possible in the economy,” said European Commissioner fo...
11 Jan 2022
Launch of consumer campaign
By Alexis Van Maercke
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new campaign that will help communicate the benefits of steel packaging to a wider audience than ever before.
For many years APE...
29 Nov 2021
Hexavalent chromium-free passivation alternative is ready for adoption
By Alexis Van Maercke, Secretary General.
Some hexavalent chromium compounds have been designated as Substances of Very High Concern in the EU. As a result, they were placed on the REACH Authorisat...
09 Apr 2021
Steel for Packaging Week continues due to popular demand
By: Viliam Gašpar, president of APEAL
Thank you to everyone who visited Steel for Packaging Week, APEAL’s first virtual event, and for the positive feedback as well as questions about steel pack...
23 Feb 2021
Steel for packaging and the European Green Deal: a circular success story
By Alexis Van Maercke, Secretary General.
The European Green Deal aims to turn Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Brand...
26 Oct 2020
How steel can help you do more with less
The European Green Deal aims to turn Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
To achieve this ambitious goal, it is essential to...
19 Oct 2020
Steel for packaging; circular by design
The circular economy and resource management are at the centre of the European Green Deal. Key to this is the Circular Economy Action Plan, which includes a ‘sustainable products’ policy and a wea...
12 Oct 2020
Steel packaging and the fight against food waste
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way many people think about food. Lockdown measures and the closure of foodservice outlets and the hospitality sector in many countries may have driven and inc...
05 Oct 2020
Steel packaging and the European Green Deal
By Alexis Van Maercke
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, described the European Green Deal as ‘Europe’s man on the moon moment’, and the scale of the challenge would...
27 May 2020
Pandemic confirms continued relevance of Steel for Packaging
Anyone who has visited a supermarket in the last few weeks has probably noticed that sales of canned food have rocketed under the impact of COVID-19, to the extent that some suppliers have been forced...
12 Feb 2019
Steel; protecting today, preserving tomorrow
By Alexis Van Maercke
With a range of packaging materials on offer, consumers are increasingly aware of how their choices are impacting upon the environment. But longer term, a predicted global foo...
28 Jan 2019
Steel – packaging designed for the 21st century
By Alexis Van Maercke
Steel has been used as a packaging material for over 200 years, but its versatility and potential for design will ensure it continues to be used for generations to come.
Wh...
22 Jan 2019
Choosing the model material for a circular economy
By Alexis Van Maercke
As we move towards a circular economy, now is the time for brands, businesses and consumers to think seriously about their choice of packaging materials, and their true enviro...
13 Nov 2018
Additional challenges to a real recycling dynamic – improving reporting in Europe
By Alexis Van Maercke
The reliability of data is critical when measuring EU member states’ recycling performance.
The Circular Economy Package tackles this challenge with the proposed adoption...
05 Nov 2018
Scrap acceptance at the factory gate is the final step towards a real recycling dynamic
By Alexis Van Maercke
The steel packaging recycling loop is closed when steel scrap arrives at the steel plant to undergo the final recycling process – in this case the use of scrap in the steel-...
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