The ecosystem of packing wants to express its offer to collaborate with the highest priority in the production, distribution, development or manufacture of any material, product or strategic service that helps mitigate the effects on people's health derived from the current health crisis caused by the COVID-19.
In this sense, the companies in the sector have been organized and sized to respond to the containment measures dictated by Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, which declares the state of alarm, and thus guarantee the necessary products to ensure supply in essential areas such as food, beverages, hygiene, health, as well as other essential goods.
The production of containers and packaging must guarantee the safety and quality of all products in order to guarantee both food safety and quality as well as the correct traceability and identification of all goods, which is achieved through the corresponding manufacturing processes carried out out to date.
With a view to the safe production of the packaging Continuous cross-border movement between countries is essential, and it is essential that customs transit flows so as not to cease or interrupt production in the supply chain in key areas such as food, pharmaceuticals and hygiene.
Additionally, the Packaging Cluster from Catalunya, PACKNET and Cluster of Container and Packaging of the Valencian Community, the three signatory entities of the present declaration, while maintaining a complete vision of the packaging cycle, they want to value the invaluable work that local administrations and waste managers are doing in ensuring, in these moments of exceptional situation, the packaging waste collection service and carrying out his work exemplary. We are sure that they will continue to apply the instructions of the competent authorities and adopt the most appropriate sanitary measures to guarantee, as they have always done, a quality waste collection and recycling service, efficient and close to the citizen, as an essential service that is . For this reason, we encourage Spanish society to continue putting its environmental commitment into practice, separating its waste and depositing it in the corresponding container for subsequent recycling.
That is why the signatory entities, they request to the relevant authorities:
- Consider the entire packaging sector as a strategic and systemic sector to help respond to this health crisis.
- Guarantee the supply of all raw materials and products necessary for the manufacture of packaging, such as plastic pellets, masterbatches, inks, adhesives, labels, paper and cardboard products and supports and all kinds of materials .
- Guarantee throughout the entire supply chain, the delivery of finished containers and packaging (boxes, bottles, pallets, shrink wrap, among others) to the packaging companies or users of the containers.
- Facilitate the movement of the necessary products in customs transit to guarantee supply throughout the chain.
And in turn, the signatory entities are at the disposal of the administrations to give quick and effective responses to the challenges and needs that are urgently required to mitigate the effects of the current health crisis.
