International Workshop "From Pilots to Systems: Making Reuse Work at Scale"

How can cities move from isolated reuse pilots to fully functioning reusable food-packaging systems? 

This international Change(K)now! workshop brought together municipalities, ministries, reuse-system providers, gastronomy, and innovation actors to explore how reusable food packaging can scale from small pilots to integrated urban systems. 

Building on experiences from across the Baltic Sea Region and beyond, the workshop focused on the missing link between policy and strategy on the one hand, and real-life implementation on the other. Participants discussed what kinds of reuse systems cities actually need, how governance and regulation can enable them, and how technical interoperability, shared infrastructure and behavioural change must come together to make reuse easy, affordable and normal. 

The programme combined keynote addresses, international examples (including Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Lisbon), perspectives from reuse system providers, and interactive working sessions on business models, consumer behaviour and municipal leadership. The second day was dedicated to co-creating concrete policy recommendations and defining next steps for Europe and the Baltic Sea Region. 

Practical_info_Change(K)now_Tallinn_workshop

Agenda

Agenda 23-24 April

Presentations

• 01_ConfentaPro_vidin-digital-badges
• 02_Lang-Herfurth_Keynote
• 03_Kanarbik_How can policy and strategy enable reuse.pptx
• 04_Karjalainen_ReuSe Vanguard Project
• 05_Nunes_Experiences from Lisbon
• 06_Qureshi_Experiences from Copenhagen
• 07_Rossau_Experiences from Aarhus
• 08_Egebaek_Danish National Partnership for Takeaway Packaging
• 09_Barsoe_New Loop
• 10_Hennebach_TOMRA_Reuse
• 11_Lang-Herfurth_sykell Company Intro
• 12_Balonski_Ringo
• 13_Rehbinder_Johansson_Cup Nordic

Final report

Change(K)now_Reuse Workshop report_Tallinn_23-24 April 2026