GCM 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reusable Packaging, Polystyrene, Sustainable Design
8 May 2019
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Sustainable packaging market worth 303. 60 billion usd by 2020. Manufacturers are financially responsible for the disposal of their products post consumption. A monetary charge imposed on consumers to purchase or lease packaging such as bags or bottles. Prohibition of items such as shopping bag, expanded polystyrene foam, pvc, electrical & electronic equipment (weee) Limit the amount of void space surrounding the product in packaging. Requires manufacturing so that returned products from consumers, such as bottles, are reusable. Packaging industry organizations with concerns for sustainability: sustainable. The european organization for packaging and the environment (europen) Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . Life cycle thinking is a way of thinking about all of the stages involved in a product"s life: raw materials extraction, manufacture, transport, use, and disposal. Life cycle assessment (lca) is a way of quantifying the environmental impacts that occur at each stage.
