A simplified environmental evaluation tool for food packaging to support decision‐making in packaging development,Packaging Technology and Science

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A simplified environmental evaluation tool for food packaging to support decision‐making in packaging development
Packaging Technology and Science ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-21 , DOI: 10.1002/pts.2484
Katrin Molina‐Besch ₁ , Henrik Pålsson ₁

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Packaging developers in the food industry must consider several, sometimes conflicting, environmental requirements on packaging along with an already complex combination of marketing, logistics and production requirements. Existing methods for the environmental evaluation of packaging either focus on a limited amount of environmental packaging criteria (such as recyclability or renewable content) or rely on life cycle assessment methodology requiring expert competence. To support the food industry in their efforts toward developing product and packaging combinations that reduce the total environmental impact in food supply chains, this article presents a simplified environmental evaluation tool for food packaging. The presented tool was developed through an iterative process in a collaborative research project with the food industry. It evaluates packaging systems based on packaging criteria sorted into four areas that represent the life‐cycle steps packaging material production, transport, household and end‐of‐life. A comparison of the tool results and screening LCA results for three packaging cases showed no major differences. From the practitioners' perspective, the main advantages of the suggested tool are that it does not require LCA‐competence, that the required input data is commonly available in packaging development projects and that its overall structure invites several functions of the company to participate. The theoretical benefits of the suggested tool are that it allows for a parallel assessment of eco‐efficiency and eco‐effectiveness criteria in a life cycle perspective and that it considers littering risk as well as the influence of packaging on food waste in households

中文翻译：

食品包装的简化环境评估工具，可支持包装开发中的决策

食品行业的包装开发人员必须考虑包装上的几个环境要求（有时是相互矛盾的）以及已经非常复杂的市场，物流和生产要求的组合。现有的包装环境评估方法要么只关注有限数量的环境包装标准（例如可回收性或可再生成分），要么依赖需要专家能力的生命周期评估方法。为了支持食品工业努力开发产品和包装组合，以减少食品供应链中的总体环境影响，本文提出了一种简化的食品包装环境评估工具。提出的工具是通过与食品行业合作研究项目中的迭代过程开发的。它根据包装标准对包装系统进行评估，包装标准分为四个区域，分别代表包装材料生产，运输，家用和报废的生命周期步骤。三种包装盒的工具结果和LCA筛选结果的比较表明，没有重大差异。从从业者的角度来看，建议的工具的主要优点是它不需要LCA能力，所需的输入数据通常在包装开发项目中可用，并且其总体结构邀请公司的多个职能部门参与。

更新日期：2020-01-21

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