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Welcome to INCPEN - The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment

INCPEN is a research organisation, which draws together an influential group of companies who share a vision of the future where all production, distribution, and consumption are sustainable. It aims to:

ensure that policy on packaging makes a positive contribution to sustainability
encourage industry to minimise the environmental impact of packaging and packaged goods and continuously improve packaging
explain the role of packaging in society.

Click here for our statement on packaging's contribution to sustainable production, distribution and consumption.

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Packaging is an integral part of the goods supply chain. It protects goods from damage, allows efficient distribution, informs the consumer and helps to promote goods in a competitive market place.	INCPEN's members are international and British companies involved in all aspects of packaged goods - material suppliers, packaging manufacturers, producers, wholesalers and retailers of packaged goods.

BBC Science and Nature Newsfeed

Great tits cope well with warming
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds.

New batch of walruses gets tagged
Ten of Greenland's walruses are fitted with sat-tags to confirm whether the blubbery beasts migrate to Canada.

'No bias' against UK astronauts
UK government opposition to human spaceflight will be no bar to its citizens becoming astronauts, Esa says.

Latest News

14 April 2008 INCPEN members support anti-littering campaign
INCPEN members play their part in anti-littering initiatives and welcome the CPRE's Stop the Drop campaign.

5 March 2008 INCPEN evidence to Lords on Waste Reduction
INCPEN explains that companies reduce packaging for economic and environmental reasons and seek overall resource efficiency.

28 November 2007 Resource efficient packaging doesn't have to be recyclable or compostable
INCPEN supports Green Alliance's Guide to Compostable Packaging but not its call for all food packaging to be recyclable or compostable

23 October 2007 Under-packaging is 10 Times Worse than Over-packaging
INCPEN comments on Local Government Authority survey of household shopping basket

Fact:
On average, a maximum of 4 million tonnes of used packaging ends up in the household waste stream or is recycled each year