Sustainable packaging
by Muthu, Subramanian Senthilkannan
Packaging plays a major role in the environmental footprints of products from any industrial sector, and thus is important to address the sustainability issues of packaging. Packaging and the packaging sector have to be eco-conscious as there are many types of packaging across various industrial sectors and so are their environmental impacts as well. Plastic packaging is one of the most common element and the packaging sector accounts for almost 40% of plastic pollution in the world. Sustainabl…
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- Full title :Sustainable packaging / Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, editor.
Summary
Packaging plays a major role in the environmental footprints of products from any industrial sector, and thus is important to address the sustainability issues of packaging. Packaging and the packaging sector have to be eco-conscious as there are many types of packaging across various industrial sectors and so are their environmental impacts as well. Plastic packaging is one of the most common element and the packaging sector accounts for almost 40% of plastic pollution in the world. Sustainable packaging is the only way forward to alleviate the environmental devastations from the the packaging sector. This book presents case studies and discusses how to make packaging more sustainable for a better future.
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- Publication Date:2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Singapore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
Notes
5 Conclusion: Future Perspectives and Limitations.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (329 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9811646090, 9789811646096
- DOI:10.1007/978-981-16-4609-6
- oclc:on1267765107
- LC Classification:TS195.4
- Dewey Decimal:658.5/64
Table of Contents
Intro -- Contents -- About the Editor -- The Environmental Performance of Glass and PET Mineral Water Bottles in Italy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Environmental Impact Assessment Methodologies. An Overview of Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint -- 3 Literature Review -- 3.1 LCA Analysis of Packaging -- 3.2 Carbon Footprint of Packaging -- 4 Assessment and Comparison Through the LCA Methodology of PET and Glass Packaging -- 5 Carbon Footprint of the Water Packaging. The Italian Assessment -- 5.1 European Bottled Water Sector -- 5.2 Italian Bottled Water Sector
5.3 Carbon Footprint Assessment -- 5.4 A Comparison as Regards to the Post-Consumption Options of Water Bottles -- 5.5 PET and R-PET in the Beverage Industry -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Health and Eco-Innovations in Food Packaging -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Role of Packaging to Reduce Food Loss and Waste -- 2 Recent Trends in Food and Drink Packaging: Nanotechnology -- 3 Health Innovations: Active and Intelligent Packaging -- 3.1 Active Packaging -- 3.2 Intelligent Packaging -- 4 Eco-innovations: Compostable Packaging -- 5 Food Packaging Innovation: Evidence from Consumers
5.1 Consumer's Accepta…
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