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Chapter 5
Responsible Packaging
Responsible packaging is often defined to include the following
Being beneficial, safe, and healthy for individuals and communities throughout its life cycle.
Meeting market criteria for performance and cost; being sourced, manufactured, transported, and recycled using renewable energy
Optimizing the use of renewable or recycled source materials.
Manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices.
Made from materials healthy in all probable end-of-life scenarios.
Physically designed to optimize materials and energy.
Effectively recovered and used in biological and/or industrial cradle-to-cradle cycles.
General process to advance sustainability packaging efforts
Establish Scope
Determine baseline
Set goals and plans
Take action and track progress
Continually improve and engage externally
Key considerations for design
Size
Shape
Function
End of life
Reusuable packaging
Recyclable packaging
Compostable packaging
Packaging programs
Packaging Hotspots
Materials
Plastic 35%
Paper board and corrugate 35%
Metals 12%
Glass 3%
End of Life
Packaging waste comes from each stage in the supply chain
Restaraunts
Retailers
Distributors
Manufacturures
Not always handled properly
Ends up in oceans which harms the wildlife
Used packaging can be recovered to be recycled to cut down on the waste that is produced
Social Hotspots
Some key social considerations for packaging
Child labor laws
Discrimination in the workplace
Forced labor