The underestimated ‘S” in sustainability and ESG

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The S in ESG – social sustainability – is one of the essential elements in a sustainable and regenerative world. Sustainability is not only green, yellow is the color for social sustainability. Social sustainability focuses on people's needs and their interaction. The substantive topics that make up social sustainability have different characteristics depending on the perspective (state, society, companies, ...). Shaping social sustainability is a management task and it works and it pays off!

The European Packaging Regulation (PPWR)

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The PPWR is a directly effective EU regulation and therefore replaces the previous Packaging Directive, which led to divergent and inhomogeneous implementations in the individual member states. Different labelling requirements for packaging (e.g. in France) as well as non-identical approaches to regulating extended producer responsibility fees led to legal uncertainty, resulting in lower investments in innovative and environmentally friendly packaging and circular models.