Finnish consortium seeks solutions to reuse consumer packaging
Press release 4 November 2021 Consumers, companies and politicians all share a common concern of environmental impacts of packaging. Despite the great effort that have taken place to improve the recyclability and recycling of packaging materials, large quantity of materials still escapes to nature due to littering. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, University of Vaasa and a large and diverse group of companies are seeking solutions to the littering problem via reuse of packaging. The goal of the work is to keep the packaging materials circulating in such a way that they retain