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Sustainable Packaging and the Role of Industry Standards

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Sustainable packaging design is a process of continuous improvement.  International standards are being developed to help define a framework or metric against which one can measure their attempts at producing a more sustainable packaging design.  This article presents  some background on the sustainability movement and industry's response relative to packaging design.  As sustainable packaging design is more of a process of continuously improving the total life cycle usage of resources while still maintaining effective product protection, this article highlights some new activity in the arena of standards development for sustainable package design.

ISO Standards for Packaging and the Environment

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Regulatory compliance, Packaging Waste Directive, Consulting, Design, Prototyping, Validation

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ISO Tech Committee TC 207 has created a new working group, SC4 to develop ISO standards on packaging and the environment.    It has been proposed that the new ISO standards be based on the existing EU packaging and the environment standards developed by CEN which are linked to the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive.  LPT offers full packaging engineering services-- design, development, prototyping and validation(full report) for compliance to EU Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC.  Packaging Consultation

Sustainability-Karen Greene as Expert on Greener Package website, blogs to follow

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Medical Device Packaging Sustainability--Greener Package

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Medical packaging sustainability--I have submitted my cirriculum vitae to Greener Package and have been asked to join their expert list and editorial board.

 I plan to provide content and research for sustainability of sterile and non sterile medical device packaging.

 Greener Package provides an alternative to the Walmart Scorecard and provides a list of sustainable packaging experts.  There are new and relevant articles pertaining to all aspects of sustainability for all packaging industries.

LPT plans to bring to light relevant issues relating to the life sciences industries.

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