Sustainable Packaging and the Role of Industry Standards
Posted by Karen Greene on Thu, May 20, 2010 @ 12:30 AM
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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.