Mandatory environmental labeling of packaging
Mandatory environmental labeling of packaging
On Sept. 11, 2020, Legislative Decree No. 116 of Sept. 3, 2020, implementing EU Directive 2018/851 on waste, and Directive (EU) 2018/852 on packaging and packaging waste, was published in the Official Gazette. Article 3(3)(c) of the decree made amendments to paragraph 5 of Article 219 of Legislative Decree No. 152 of April 3, 2006 (and subsequent updates and amendments), “Environmental Regulations,” on the subject of “Criteria informing packaging waste management activities.”
Faced with the objective operational difficulties in providing for the direct affixing of environmental labeling on packaging for certain situations, in a note dated May 17, 2021, the Ministry of Ecological Transition clarified how to deal with so-called Neutral Packaging in general, with particular reference to those intended for commercial/industrial channels and/or possible semi-finished products. Since this is B2B packaging, identification of the packaging composition material can be conveyed and communicated by the manufacturer on the transport documents accompanying the goods, or on other external media, including digital.
All of our products are delivered on properly labeled pallets and are all classifiable as belonging to the LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE – LDPE 04 category, which provides for DIFFERENTIATED PLASTIC COLLECTION.
This information is also shown on all our Transportation Documents, our Invoices and our Order Confirmations.
In turn, our products are packaged and with different materials that fall into the following classifications:
INTERLAYERS: CORRUGATED CARDBOARD – PAP 20 – SEPARATE COLLECTION OF PAPER AND CARDBOARD
CARDBOARD CORES: NON-CORRUGATED CARDBOARD – PAP 20 – SEPARATE COLLECTION OF PAPER AND CARDBOARD
PLASTIC CORES: POLYVINYL CHLORIDE – PVC 03 – SEPARATE PLASTIC COLLECTION
PALLETS: WOOD – FOR 50 – SEPARATE COLLECTION OF WOOD
STRAPPING: POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE – PET 01 – SEPARATE COLLECTION PLASTIC
