The Kasa dei Libri, with its vast collection of 35,000 volumes accessible to the public, and Comieco, the National Consortium for the recovery and recycling of cellulose-based packaging, may seem like two distinct realities. However, both share a common goal: the conservation and reuse of paper in all its forms. While the Kasa of Books is committed to the preservation of paper through its collection, Comeco deals with giving it a second life through recycling.
For this reason, they consider each other friends and allies and, at least once a year, get together with some guests to discuss shared issues. This year, a series of three meetings called “Paper that goes, paper that comes” was organized, during which the different contexts in which the use of paper is decreasing or increasing will be explored.
“We are becoming increasingly better at separate collection and recycling of paper and cardboard: in the packaging sector alone, we have already achieved the European objectives for 2025 (75% recycling rate) and we are close to exceeding the 85% target set for 2030. – explains Carlo Montalbetti, General Director of Comieco – However, much still remains to be understood about the potential of paper and the role it plays in everyday life today and it is precisely to delve deeper into these themes that we are pleased to promote this series of meetings together with the Kasa dei Libri”.
Wednesday 27 March 2024, 6pm
Newspapers and books, some go up and some go down
In this first period of the third millennium, paper newspapers are increasingly replaced by digital information; however in the world of books, particularly those for children, paper seems to hold. Are the digital natives all modern and the paper advocates are all brontosauruses? A protagonist of publishing like Renata GorganiCEO of the Il Castoro publishing house, compares himself with Giangiacomo Schiavicolumnist for the «Corriere della Sera».
Tuesday 23 April 2024, 6pm
Dear friend, I won’t write to you
Correspondence is now a thing of the past. What do we lose and what do we gain when paper is replaced by digital tools. Three representatives of different generations and professions talk about it, for a stimulating and non-trivial comparison: Lorenzo Bisesinfluencers, Angelo Crespidirector of the Pinacoteca di Brera and gallery owner Antonia Jannone.
Tuesday 28 May 2024, 6pm
There’s a package for you
In just a few years, new contemporary packaging has become a constant presence in our lives: a change in habits that has consequences for many of our behaviors. The entrepreneur discusses it Piero Capodiecithe paper artist Caterina Crepax and the President of the Symbola Foundation, Ermete Realacci.
