NVC Special 2023 will be published: sharing trends and topics in packaging

The annual print-edition of the NVC Special will be published on 13 January in 2023. With this ‘yearbook’ we share information about and our vision on current international trends in packaging. Specifically, we provide an overview of the NVC activities in a wide range of subjects. The NVC Special is bilingual (English and Dutch) and

PERSPECTIVE of NVC NETHERLANDS PACKAGING CENTRE on Draft IENW/BSK-2022/263822 by Ms. VLWA Heijnen MSc.

This PERSPECTIVE comprises three parts: Introduction of association NVC and its position on packaging and environment Analysis of packaging and environment over the period 2013-2022 Policy recommendations for the year 2023 and beyond Introduction of association NVC and its position on packaging and environment Every second, the world packs some 320,000 products – and the

NVC advice to minister: postpone decision on generally binding declaration of packaging collection and recycling levies in the Netherlands

In an official Perspective on a Draft Decision by Minister Ms Vivianne Heijnen MSc regarding the General Binding Declaration of future levies by the Dutch Packaging Waste Fund Foundation (Stichting Afvalfonds Verpakkingen), NVC argues that such a far reaching Decision should not be taken in the short term indicated. The NVC Perspective suggests that the

6e PUMA annual meeting: accelerating towards the end of packaging as an environmental problem

On 16 March 2022, the 6e annual meeting of the PUMA project took place, Live Hybrid from the Van der Valk Hotel in Dordrecht. Live Hybrid means that 1/3 of the more than one hundred participants were physically present in the hotel, while the other 2/3 participated real-time and interactively from around the world. Together