What is the environmental performance of food packaging? - PACK_AGB project

What is the environmental performance of food packaging? Discover the PACK_AGB project to improve packaging data in the AGRIBALYSE database, the reference base for the future environmental labelling system currently being developed by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Ademe.

AGRIBALYSE ? The Agribalyse database, owned by ADEME, uses LCA to characterize the impacts of nearly 2,500 food products and 200 raw agricultural products. Against this backdrop, the REVALIM Scientific Interest Group was founded in 2021 by Acta and its partners (Actia, Ademe, INRAe) to consolidate the environmental assessment of agricultural and food products. One of the priorities on the roadmap is to improve packaging modeling!

That's why the PACK_AGB project was born! It's a project co-financed by ADEME and coordinated by the CTCPA with Actia's technical partners: ITERG, IFIP, Actalia; and IPC and Bleu Safran. A wonderful synergy of skills and technical expertise!

Project objectives? Improve the environmental assessment of food packaging in the Agribalyse database, by proposing a methodological framework for fine-grained packaging characterization!

Take a yogurt, for example! Each element (pot, lid, label, sleeve) of the packaging as sold to the consumer has been characterized: materials, shaping processes, losses associated with the process, transport from supply to end-of-life, taking into account the impacts avoided by recycling: the rigorous methodological framework will enable us to achieve robustness and representativeness of packaging in AGRIBALYSE!

The data produced will feed into the next version of the Agribalyse database, scheduled for early 2024, and thus into the data used by the future environmental display system. The report and methodological summary will be available at the same time!

Contact Margaux COLOMBIN - Project Manager Environment - mcolombin@ctcpa.org