A Path to Resilience

LoopME

Loop Test of Reusable Takeaway Packaging

 

 

LoopME

Lead Organization: Technical University of Denmark

Project Period: April 2026 - March 2029

Pool: TRACE Pool 5

Project Status: New

Each year, Danish takeaway (TA) food culture is responsible for appr 150 mill single-use TA food Packaging items (TAP), destroying any ambition of abandoning single-use packaging.

With LoopME, large amounts of this waste are reduced by developing, testing, and providing a PoC of a new Deposit&Return System (DRS) for TAP REUSE. PoC is validated in 2 loops, one targeting mass events (festivals across DK) and ZOO, one for campuses/corporates (CPH Uni, DR Byen), providing data for impact assessments (ao LCAs, return rates, CO2) and worldwide scaling.

Participating partners: Technical University of Denmark, New Loop, Clean, Danish Technological Institute, Compass Group DK, GateGourmet DK, Fonden Roskilde Festival, Mastercard Denmark, Sykell GmbH, KeepIn, Live Nation Denmark ApS, CPH ZOO, DRC

Funding call: Circular Solutions in the Food Industry

Project Leader

Bettina Hauge

Mail: behau@dtu.dk

 

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