General Guidelines, barriers and opportunities associated to industrial, macroeconomic, regulatory specifications

Deliverable 1.1 “General Guidelines, barriers, and opportunities associated with industrial, macroeconomic, regulatory specifications” is the first deliverable of WP1, led by the University of Hohenheim and co-led by CTCPA. The objective of this deliverable is to provide a generic methodology common to all specifications from industry, bioeconomy, legislation, and standards, including end of life solutions, in order to develop an easy-to-use and practical tool to help sustainable packaging technologies to reach their best market. To achieve this objective, the specifications will be expressed in a simple way through a decision tree that will be possibly exploited by software (future developments of WP1). The goal is to translate the specifications into practical guidelines; this was achieved by extensive work on classifications of the various specifications related to packaging and packaged food products.

In the first sections project’s summary and a short description of works packages with tasks are given.

A systematic template for the inventory of industrial specifications, incl. material providers, packaging manufacturers, agro-food industry, and distribution (sections 2-5), and macroeconomic and regulatory constraints (sections 6-7), was developed. The general technological steps or property categories were listed, the sub-steps and the subcategories were also established (Figure 1).

A collection of possible technical and non-technical parameters for each technological step or property category is reported in the deliverable. This information was directly provided by the project partners and coordinated by the task leaders to ensure the specificity of the collected data.