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Armando Mariano
Seda International
Seda designs and manufactures innovative fiber-based food packaging solutions for the world’s leading multinational corporations, providing them with sustainable products in line with their environmental strategy.
With a background in chemical engineering, for more than 25 years Armando Mariano has been successfully leading globally new product launches across different packaging lines (cartons, paperboard and flexible packaging) from concept idea to industrialisation and go to market.
Armando Mariano’s role include partnering across the customer’s organization, and especially with the brands, design, strategy, and supply chain teams, to develop and implement product sustainability strategies.
Currently Armando Mariano is also chair of the committee on “Life-Cycle Assessment, Health & Science” of EPPA (European Paper Packaging Alliance), a not-for-profit EU association representing food and food service packaging companies from across Europe.
The aim of the committee is to support, using a science-based approach, the association’s commitment to provide paper-based low carbon and health-safe products with a low environmental impact and improved recycling solutions to the European population.
Tuesday
Tuesday
04 October
09:35 - 10:00
04 October
09:35 - 10:00
EU and politics - European Economic and Social Committee – Commission report on packaging and packaging waste in the EU
- Language:
- English
- Conference Room:
- Scanpack Summit level 2 J2
- Track:
- Summit
Background: Statistics of the European Union clearly show the enormous amounts of packaging materials presently used for the safety, hygiene, transportation, conservation, presentation and application of all kinds of goods - be they for industrial purposes, construction works, communication systems or individual consumption. Most of them are of carbonic or metallic origins, which are limited resources altogether, and a part of the waste of these packaging materials can lead to environmental negative impacts and may seriously endanger human health as well as animal and plant well-being.
Along with recycling, the main challenge is how to produce, use and dispose packaging products that are totally based on natural renewable raw materials which are biodegradable and can, in turn, be reused in organic agriculture.
All these aspects must be balanced with economic as well as health considerations, as packaging not only is at the basis of important value chains, but it also often constitutes an essential element for health preservation, in food and beverage but also in other industrial sectors and in the sanitary field.The opinion aims at exploring these aspects, and it also comes in the context of a revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, which is currently undergoing and that the European Commission plans to issue in mid-2022.
Tuesday
04 October
10:35 - 11:00
04 October
10:35 - 11:00
EU and politics, panel discussion
- Language:
- English
- Conference Room:
- Scanpack Summit level 2 J2
- Track:
- Summit