Application of life cycle assessment to improve the environmental performance of a ceramic tile packaging system

Bovea, Marı́a D.; Serrano, Julia Galán; Bruscas, G.M.; Gallardo, Antonio

doi:10.1002/pts.711

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“…To address environmental concerns related to packaging, many countries have introduced policies and regulations that impose eco‐taxes or deposit return, others require companies to take back and recover their packaging, or even promote voluntary product stewardship programmers, to allocate and distribute waste management costs, or shift responsibility onto product manufacturers . Directive 94/62/CE and its updated version 2004/12/CE are meant to regulate materials rationalization and packaging waste reduction in the European market, seeking to enforce producer responsibility and product stewardship by providing standards for recovery and recycling . In particular, these directives set some important requirements related to source reduction, recovery standards, reuse, heavy metals content limitation and minimization of hazardous substances in packaging.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This approach is widely used in literature, and many empirical studies embedded in the review assess the sustainability of particular packaging system configurations using LCA (e.g. ). In this contest, several design and decision support tools have been developed to allow packaging designers and engineers to assess the sustainability of their packaging systems on the basis of LCA.…”

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Packaging Design: General Framework and Research Agenda

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Traditionally, packaging design has had a subordinate role with respect to product design and production systems design; however, its impact on supply chain costs and performances can be devastating. Only in the past few years its strategic role has been recognized both in theory and in practice. Although packaging design research attracted considerable attention in the recent past, the purpose of this article is to broaden the field even further in two main directions. First, an attempt is made to review the status of literature on packaging design: a total of 89 articles published between 1990 and 2011 are reviewed and classified by content. In this contest, related International Standards are also presented and discussed, and a conceptual framework for packaging design is presented. Second, an agenda for future research in this area is provided

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

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Packaging Design: General Framework and Research Agenda

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“…[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Recently, researchers focused on environmental impact evaluation of packaging systems associated with the manufacture of materials and containers based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. [9][10][11][12][13] According to Huang and Ma, the main life cycle environmental impact of packaging containers occurs during the manufacturing phase (over 90%). 13 Other researchers also concentrated on technical problems in the production of moulded pulp packaging.…”

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Multidimensional life cycle assessment on various moulded pulp production systems

Huo

Saito

2009

Packag Technol Sci

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Moulded pulp has been used as an alternative to plastic in certain packaging applications, but some problems in the production system lead to higher costs including energy consumption. Industry tends to operate on the basis of experience rather than through scientifi c evaluation and systematic design methods. The research aims at detecting the problems in the production system by a multidimensional life cycle assessment (MLCA) with transparent analysis. The MLCA measures the performance of the moulded pulp production system with regard to technical, economic and environmental aspects and produces quantitative results (in monetary units), and fi nally indicates the overall effi ciency of the production system using a sustainability index (SI). A life cycle impact assessment method based on endpoint modelling (LIME) is mainly adopted in the MLCA. Three existing moulded pulp production systems for industrial packaging in China were assessed in this study. The results show that the main environmental impacts of the three production systems are the atmospheric emissions and landfi ll waste; the drying stage in the production systems, which is dominated by consumption of resources and environmental impacts, is the key to controlling costs; steam should be the fi rst preferred heat source in the drying process for achieving sustainability in the moulded pulp production system. The optimum for the three cases is identifi ed by calculating the newly developed SI. The MLCA approach can be used to assist in identifying potential improvements and practical new packaging designs.

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“…Detzel et al 5 studied PET packaging and included the potential benefi t of several end uses for recycled packaging. Bovea et al 1 calculated the direct environmental impacts of packaging, and evaluated the effect of packaging minimisation options by using LCA. These packaging studies attempt a holistic approach by including as much of the packaging life cycle as possible, including waste treatment and even new utilisation after recycling.…”

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Sustainable packaging design: a holistic methodology for packaging design

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SUMMARYThis study describes a holistic methodology for sustainable packaging design. This methodology studies the combined systems of packaging and the packaged products across the whole distribution chain from manufacturer to end consumer and the life cycle from raw material extraction to the waste phase. It contains a number of indicators that are grouped into the following main categories: environmental sustainability, distribution costs, product protection, market acceptance and user friendliness. The methodology integrates a number of different analytical methods. It is intended to be used in packaging design and optimisation, for idea generation, decision support and as documentation of properties of existing packaging systems. The study describes experiences with the methodology from one case study in the Norwegian Food Industry. The experiences show that the methodology is very comprehensive, and gives a good overview of the properties of a packaging solution. It enables quantitative comparisons between different packaging solutions throughout the design process. The methodology reduces the risk of implementing sub-optimal packaging solutions. An additional benefi t of the methodology is gained by working in cross-functional teams. One potential drawback is that the methodology can be resource and data intensive. The methodology can be used as a tool box in packaging design, i.e. it is not necessary to use all methods and quantify all indicators to gain benefi t.

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Application of life cycle assessment to improve the environmental performance of a ceramic tile packaging system

Cited by 20 publications

References 13 publications

Packaging Design: General Framework and Research Agenda

Packaging Design: General Framework and Research Agenda

Multidimensional life cycle assessment on various moulded pulp production systems

Sustainable packaging design: a holistic methodology for packaging design

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