Italian Fresh food and food service packaging manufacturer Ilip has welcomed the new Italian law and EU Platform that involve all the players operating in the food supply chain to fight food waste.
Food waste and food recovery have been two central themes of the Italian Parliament and European Commission agendas in recent days, before a final approval in the Italian Senate of a new law to fight food waste and the launch of the The EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste (FLW).
“We welcome this new law and platform aimed at fighting food waste, since at Ilip we recognise our role in supporting food processors, retailers and caterers to deliver safer food products and to minimise food waste,' said Roberto Zanichelli, sales and marketing director at Ilip. 'It’s for these reasons that Ilip was the first food packaging manufacturer to join the Save Food project, the global initiative launched by FAO 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,' he continued. 'This new approach could also bring changes in the current food production paradigm focusing more on food quality than quantity.'
The Italian legislation aims to cut waste at each stage of the supply chain, from production to processing, from distribution to the table, through the achievement of priority goals including general waste reduction and recycling in the wider economic view, whilst the EU FLW 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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