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Thanks to Elcke Vels from Innovation Origins for this post about our business case at BrewRight. I think you really got the essence of what we stand for and aim to do! Specifically, the mentality shift required; from 'polluters pay' to everyone's (SME) participation (Dutch: van 'polluters pay', naar iedereen doet mee) in order to achieve net zero 2050 💪🏻 🚀. #Carboninsetting #netzero2050 #craftbrewing #fermentation #sme

Exciting News! 🌱Conceptional guides Schiphol Airport Amsterdam to become more sustainable in its F&B offering in close collaboration with its F&B business partners. In August 2023, Schiphol Commercial made the step to join the Sustainable Food Route. Through the Sustainable Food Route, we help Foodservice companies become more sustainable by working towards an ambition, strategy, and concrete roadmap. After finishing the overall strategy and roadmap for Schiphol Airport at the end of 2023, Conceptional continued to advise Schiphol over the past few months. This guidance consisted of a high-intensity working group structure together with Schiphol and its business partners. To translate this ambition into concrete actions and initiatives from its hospitality partners, several guidelines documents have been drafted. Each of these documents serves a specific focus area - for example, sustainable procurement, reporting, design and communication. These guidelines were drawn up by Conceptional in close cooperation with Schiphol and its F&B business partners within the Sustainable Food Route Project. To formalise the joint commitment, a covenant was signed this week between Schiphol and its F&B business partners. Over the past months, Fred Van Aken Hidde Verschuren and Claartje Verschoor have worked diligently to steer Schiphol Airport towards this great moment in terms of content and process. We would like to thank Bram Kreté and Inge van Baardwijk MBA for their trust and look forward to the future of this unique and impactful project. Want to learn more about this and how we can help with your journey towards sustainability? Click the link below to read more or contact us directly. https://lnkd.in/e7v6uK5z The Sustainable Food Route is a joint initiative of We Design Food and Conceptional. The picture is made by Roger Cremers #SustainableFuture #Schiphol #GreenInitiatives #SustainableFoodRoute

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Message in a bottle   Nice to speak with Noah Moeys of Het Financieel Dagblad about Deposit Return Schemes, as the Netherlands is planning  to increase the deposit on plastic bottles to EUR 0.50. Currently, the number of plastic bottles that are returned is around 70% and the purpose of the rise is to increase this percentage. The stick for the consumer is obvious, but there will also be carrots. More money is going to be invested in collection points, making it easier to return the ‘empties’, although regulation does not yet oblige all points of sale to accept returns, nor ensure that collection machines are always in working order.   What is less clear is where the carrots are for drink manufacturers? In Lithuania, the beer market was booming in the early noughties, growing by over 7% per year. More than half the beer was sold in glass. When the country introduced a deposit on refillable glass bottles in 2006, the total beer market shrunk by 10% and the share of glass fell to one-third. This can partly be blamed on the global financial crisis, but when deposits were also introduced on one-way packaging in 2016, history repeated itself.  Over the next two years, the overall market declined by 14% (against the trend) and the share of one-way PET-bottles -the big winner during 2006-2016- fell from 60% to less than half. No wonder there are worried voices.   Higher recycling rates and availability of recovered material are of course desirable for society as a whole, but effects on overall volumes and packaging mix could be unintended side effects that seriously hurt ‘spectators’. Only twelve months ago, the Netherlands introduced deposits on metal cans. Protests from the drinks industry are therefore no real surprise. Clarity, long term consistency and maintenance of a level playing field could help to overcome these objections #beverages #sustainability #packaging

We are on our path to be Europe’s most sustainable and truly circular producer of rigid plastic containers. In order to achieve this goal, our urgent call to everyone is to come to a ban on the incineration of plastic packaging waste. When legislation across Europe sets clear objectives for increased minimum amounts of recycled plastics to be used, we must prevent plastic packaging from being burned. That is also the reason why we founded FIRE-OFF, our start-up that collects used and emptied buckets in the market. Since the launch one year ago we see a rapidly increasing interest in this circular initiative. In the video below you can see another container filled with emptied and used buckets. They are on their way to be transformed to another bucket again. This is not only recycling of plastic packaging waste, but a clear example of how to go from bucket to bucket! No downcycling, but bucketcycling!

Sterling job by the press section at the EC Representation last week; taking quick action to make sure the facts got right when the news broke last week that “Brussels” allegedly wanted to forbid ‘rook-worst’. For those of you less versed in Dutch cuisine, this much-loved Dutch kind of sausage is something that basically every kid here has grown up with on the dinner table (and yes, nowadays also available as a plant-based option). In a Swedish context, it would be like ‘Brussels forbids kanelbullar’. Turns out it was a vote in a comitology procedure, in which Member States approved to ban of a potentially cancerous artificial smoke aroma, used i.a by some producers this kind of sausage, but also in potato chips and other “BBQ”-flavoured processed foods. Decision based on analysis by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) . Quite a good move from a food security and public health perspective. Now looking at the news conversation, most media outlets did actually bring this very important clarification on context, responsibilities and outcomes. Not falling for the temptation to ridicule Brussels bureaucrats, but actually letting nutrition experts explain why this is a responsible action. I think quite a lot of readers/viewers rather were left with the realisation of having been cheated by the processed food industry, and thankful that public authorities step in to prevent damage, than overruled by far-away bureaucrats. Oh - and one of the most iconic brands selling this sausage jumped to the occasion to point out, that their ‘rook-worst’ is actually smoked, not just flavoured ‘as if’. Seems authenticity and #factfulness got the upper hand this time 🇪🇺💪👏

Certification obligation for organic products set up by Skal is unworkable and expensive! The certification obligation for "organic" products set up by Skal as an elaboration of EU regulations causes great regulatory pressure and high costs for retailers and is difficult to comply with. Moreover, the strict rules can lead to disproportionately high compliance costs. The Dutch Advisory Board on Regulatory Burden (ATR) writes this in an advice to the Minister of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Safety. The ATR endorses the signal from the sector association Vakcentrum that some entrepreneurs are considering stopping the sale of certified organic products. In addition, the strict rules encourage the use of more packaging waste - such as plastics. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Ues05H #vakcentrum, #eurocommerce, #MKB, #biologisch, #ATR