In recent years, France has become a frontrunner in the field of reusable packaging. What practices, good and bad, can we learn from them? How have reuse models been (re)introduced, what is the legal framework and how does the French reuse market operate?
In 2020, KIDV has set up the Community of Practice on Reusable packaging in order to further investigate challenges and opportunities of reusable packaging. The CoP Reusable Packaging consists of parties who want to make their packaging more sustainable by studying and implementing reusable options. Supermarkets, brand owners, service providers, start-ups, research institutes and NGOs all participate in this KIDV community. As a collective, the CoP investigates and discusses relevant themes, share information and set up and support pilots.
This webinar, with the focus on France, is the first in a triptych of webinars on reuse learnings in other countries. InOff Plastic is the co-host of this session. In upcoming editions, we will focus on Germany and the UK.
Programme
François Chartier-Kastler and Manon Sennechael, founders InOff Plastic and co-hosts of this webinar
InOff Plastic is a consulting firm that supports FMCG producers and retailers in exploring, designing and deploying distribution models based on reusable and reffilable packaging.
Alister Tuck-Sherman, Program Manager at (RE)SET
The (RE)SET Company is a one-stop shop circular economy consulting firm, operating in several fields (e.g. furniture, textile, packaging) to accelerate circular models. The company currently supports the French EPR organisation, CITEO, in its work on standardisation in the field of reusable packaging on a national level.
Shu Zhang, Co-founder & CEO of Pandobac and President of Réseau Consigne
Pandobac provides an all-in-one reusable packaging solution, providing B2B food chain clients with reusable crates as well as a cleaning and tracking service to replace disposable cardboard and polystyrene packaging in the transport of fresh products.
Réseau Consigne is an association gathering private actors working on reusable packaging in France.
Nicolas d’Aprigny, Co-founder of Bout' à Bout'
Bout' à Bout' is a local deposit scheme operator in the Pays de la Loire region (west of France). It enables local beverage producers to reuse their glass bottles by providing them with a cleaning and reverse transportation service and supporting them in every step of this transition.
Ludivine Delatronchette, CSR manager at Carrefour
In partnership with Loop, Carrefour's consumers can purchase more than 40 products of national brands in reusable containers. These products can be purchased in 20 stores in the Ile-de-France region.