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Food Packaging
Published in Dennis R. Heldman, Daryl B. Lund, Cristina M. Sabliov, Handbook of Food Engineering, 2018
Sustainable Packaging:Is beneficial, safe & healthy for individuals and communities throughout its life cycle;Meets market criteria for both performance and cost;Is sourced, manufactured, transported, and recycled using renewable energy;Optimizes the use of renewable or recycled source materials;Is manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices;Is made from materials healthy throughout the life cycle;Is physically designed to optimize materials and energy;Is effectively recovered and utilized in biological and/or industrial closed loop cycles.
Integrating product design and supply chain management for a circular economy
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2023
Haydn Burke, Abraham Zhang, Jason X. Wang
Sustainable packaging refers to the development and use of packaging solutions that incorporate sustainability principles (e.g. packaging reduction and recycling). Packaging materials follow a similar lifecycle to products and are most likely used once and then discarded into landfills (Svanes et al. 2010). The interviewees acknowledged that excessive use of packaging was as environmentally harmful as unsustainable products. However, most packaging has complex materials to support transportation and the use of the products, and thus are difficult to recycle. Simplifying and standardising packaging would facilitate the development of infrastructure for packaging recycling. A business manager from a logistics business stated, ‘I think standardisation in packaging would help with this issue. If there were global standards for packaging, then recycling could happen more easily’.
Integrating sustainable supply chain practices with operational performance: an exploratory study of Chinese SMEs
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2019
Niraj Kumar, Andrew Brint, Erjing Shi, Arvind Upadhyay, Ximing Ruan
Past literatures have focused on reducing the environmental impacts related to sourcing and producing packaging materials, and recovery of the materials at the end-of-life. Green strategies adopted in the industry include the selection of more renewable materials, using flexible materials in replace of rigid plastics, enhancing the efficiency and energy consumption involving sourcing, producing and converting packaging materials (European Council 1994). Zailani et al. (2012) stressed the importance of sustainable packaging by claiming that it has direct impact on a company’s economic and social outcomes. Svanes et al. (2010) also described a holistic methodology for packaging design with the Norwegian food industry as a case study. Huang (2017) argued that in order to increase the value of the goods, multi-layer packaging or expensive materials are used blindly resulting in the packaging costs even higher than the value of goods. Such packaging not only confuses consumers, but also wastes more resources, increase production costs and recovery difficulties, and are inconsistent with the development direction of green packaging. Therefore, the packaging structure should be simplified on the premise of ensuring the performance.