| Press documents: 🗂️ Press kit 🗞️ Press release 📽️ Video recordings of the launch day, on January 12th (program down below) FR only 📊 Slides presented by Vincent Colomb, ADEME FR only 📊 Slides presented by Pierre Slamich, Open Food Facts FR only |
The “Tackling Food Packaging” project
Open Food Facts will collect very precise information on each element of food packaging (shape, material, weight, sorting instructions) from manufacturers and citizens.
This information will be freely reusable (“open data”).
It will enable ADEME and all stakeholders (researchers, public decision-makers, journalists, experts, producers, teachers, and the general public) to better understand the leverages for reducing the impact of food packaging in the current environmental context.
| The “Tackling Food Packaging” project consists of: 🔵 on the one hand, improve the data collection tools in Open Food Facts (software, tutorials, documentation) to allow the greatest number of people to contribute 🔵 on the other hand, conduct a “flash” operation until the end of March 2023 to massively enrich the database with the participation of companies and consumers. |
This project will create transparent, accessible, reusable (open data) and totally new information to reach many goals:
- Encouraging eco-conception: by encouraging emulation between brands, by providing manufacturers and industries with detailed statistics on the packaging of their products and by suggesting possible eco-conception options on our free platform for producers.
- Supporting environmental labelling: the data collected will allow us to validate the formula of the future official environmental label, and then to make it available to the general public (via apps, online sales sites, etc.)
- Improve public policies: public authorities will be able to use open-data for new purposes (prediction and monitoring of packaging-related waste production, quantification of the impact of public policies, leverage of public action on the various players).
- Support and fuel scientific research: researchers from all over the world will be able to cross data, compare them in different countries, and identify new ways to reduce the impact of packaging.
To do so, we need detailed information on the packaging of each product, including the shape (box, bottle, etc.), the material (PET plastic, glass, etc.), the instructions for recycling and (ideally) the weight of each element of the packaging.
We therefore call for:
- Citizens to enter the packaging data of the products they consume into the Open Food Facts database, via the website or the application
- Manufacturers to share their product packaging data to Open Food Facts via the platform for professionals
Review of the launch event, organised by Open Food Facts and the ADEME Agency
You’ll find the video recordings (FR only) of our launch event at the Académie du Climat on the 12th of January.
On the agenda:
🗣 Opening by Boris Ravignon (ADEME’s president) and Diane Simiu (Assistant to the General Commissioner for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Ecological Transition).
🗣 Introduction by Vincent COLOMB (“Environmental labelling” Coordinator, ADEME).
>> Consult the slides presented by ADEME
🗣 Presentation of the Open Food Facts project and of the “Tackling Food Packaging” operation by Pierre Slamich(co-founder of Open Food Facts)
>> Consult the slides presented by Open Food Facts
Round table about food packaging with the following speakers:
🗣 Romain Tramoy – Laboratoire Eau, Environnement et Systèmes Urbains (Leesu)
🗣 Ludivine SAVEAN – Maison Le Goff
🗣 Moïra Tourneur – Zero Waste France
🗣 Agathe Grossmith – Carrefour
🗣 Claudia Giacovelli – United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
🎤 Moderation by Charles Nepote and Manon Corneille – Open Food Facts
🙋❓Questions/Answers
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Press Contacts :
- Pierre Slamich – Co-founder of Open Food Facts – pierre@openfoodfacts.org – (+33) 6 02 13 14 57
- Manon Corneille – Manufacturer relations – manon@openfoodfacts.org – (+33) 7 82 82 80 13