New International Packaging Standards
Stockholm, Sweden — Experts from 15 countries met in late Decmeber to begin developing standards to cover environmental issues related to packaging such as reuse, recycling and composting.
About 70 delegates from China, Japan, Korea and 11 European countries are meeting in Sweden for the first gathering for the SC4 Packaging and Environment committee. The group is part of the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) Technical Committee 122, which is responsible for all packaging standards.
Source reduction, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, chemical recovery, composting and biodegrading are among the criteria, which is expected to be in place by mid 2012.
