Preventing Environmental Impacts of Products by Proper Packaging Conclusions from LCA case studies as main rationale for packaging designer toolbox
(0) A toolbox is being developed to support packaging and product designers, when assessing environmentalimpacts of the entire value chain of the food product. One main rationale of the project is to minimiseenvironmental impacts of food products by suitable packaging. Environmental impacts of three foodproducts (bread, ham, Soygurt drink) and their packaging alternatives with recovery options are assessed byLCA in separate case studies. One unique element within these case studies was a consumer survey on theamounts of food waste of the selected product groups generated at households, as a function of different sizesof packaging. The results of our study show that the amount of food waste is found to be a dominating factorwhen comparing environmental impacts of different food packaging solutions and this observation is amongmain rationales of the toolbox.
Juha-Matti Katajajuuri Olli Miettinen Marja Pitkanen Helena Wessman Frans Silvenius Heta-Kaisa Koivupuro Rabbe Thun Kaisa Gronman Risto Soukka Terhen Jarvi-Kaariainen Margareetta Ollila Mika Kuisma
MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Biotechnology and Food Research Helsinki, Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Espoo, Finland Lappeenranta University of Technology Lappeenranta, Finland Association of Packaging Technology and Research (PTR) Helsinki, Finland Aalto University School of Economics Helsinki, Finland
国际会议
The 17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging(第17届世界包装大会)
天津
英文
480-483
2010-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）