Environmental Life Cycle Costs in the Australian Food Packaging Supply Chain

Abstract

There is increasing evidence that external and internal pressures are being placed upon companies to acknowledge, characterise and analyse environmental issues, impacts and costs. It has been argued that companies will increasingly be faced with responsibilities extending outside the factory gate to point of sale and beyond. Companies will need to adopt a life cycle perspective into the decisionmaking framework, to support managements' decisions regarding the environmental impacts and costs of activities and products.