Packaging - From Sinner to Saint … in just 20 years: A resource efficiency
story about the absolution of packaging as it is increasingly recognized for
the role it plays in helping society to manage the resources it uses more
efficiently. The poster presentation uses 3 food packaging LCA studies
(wine, goulasch soup, coffee) packed in either alufoil, flexible packaging or
both to illustrate where the real environmental impacts are. Also, how a
greater awareness and understanding of the role played by the pack is
contributing to it’s absolution as “the sinner” and being increasingly seen as
part of the solution to reducing food waste – enter the “saint”.

food-waste; packaging; LCA; sustainable