The chairman of the Federation of Industry's environment committee, Godwin C. Micallef, gave a presentation on packaging and packaging waste to second-year students of the Faculty of Law, at the University of Malta.
Mr Micallef gave details of the packaging used by the manufacturing sector, the recycling and disposal of its packaging waste, and the use of plastics in packaging.
Industry has the highest percentage of recovered packaging waste and this is achieved by reducing, reusing and recycling most of its packaging waste, Mr Micallef said.
"The challenge to industry will be to satisfy the demands of marketing while maintaining cost effectiveness and reducing the environmental impact of packaging waste," he said.