Packaging for Sustainability [Hardcover]

The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packagings 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.

1. Developing the Strategy.- 2. Designing for Sustainability.- 3. Marketing and Communicating Sustainability.- 4. Complying with Regulations.- 5. Applying Life Cycle Assessment.- 6. Packaging Materials.- 7. Selecting and Applying Tools.- 8. Implementing the Strategy.

Dr Karli Verghese

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Karli is Program Director, Sustainable Products and Packaging at the Centre for Design at RMIT University. She has been involved in research specialising in life cycle assessment (LCA), packaging sustainability and eco-design projects since 1996. Her research interests also include developing qualitative and quantitative tools to assist designers, packaging technologists and other professionals in environmental decision-making. She has been a key researcher in the Sustainable Packaging Alliance (SPA) and was the Product (Research) Development Manager for PIQET  Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool, an online life cycle based decision support tool for the pal“%