Packaging for sustainability

✍ Scribed by Leanne Fitzpatrick, Karli Verghese, Helen Lewis (auth.), Karli Verghese, Helen Lewis, Leanne Fitzpatrick (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 389
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packaging’s sustainability by reducing its environmental and societal impacts. This is a considerable challenge because of the complex interactions between products and their packaging, and the many roles that packaging plays in the supply chain.

Packaging for Sustainability is a concise and readable handbook for practitioners who are trying to implement sustainability strategies for packaging. Industry case studies are used throughout the book to illustrate possible applications and scenarios. Packaging for Sustainability draws on the expertise of researchers and industry practitioners to provide information on business benefits, environmental issues and priorities, environmental evaluation tools, design for environment, marketing strategies, and challenges for the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Developing the Strategy....Pages 1-39
Designing for Sustainability....Pages 41-106
Marketing and Communicating Sustainability....Pages 107-153
Complying with Regulations....Pages 155-169
Applying Life Cycle Assessment....Pages 171-210
Packaging Materials....Pages 211-250
Selecting and Applying Tools....Pages 251-283
Implementing the Strategy....Pages 285-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-384

✦ Subjects

Industrial and Production Engineering; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Engineering Design; Innovation/Technology Management