Factors affecting consumers’ choices concerning sustainable packaging during product purchase and recycling

Martinho, Graça; Portela, Gonçalo; Fonseca, Miguel

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2015.07.012

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“…Accordingly, within the first concept category, food packaging is assumed to be a product. As a consequence, the attributes of the packaging are assumed to lead to functions that may influence consumer behavior in recycling or purchasing [32,56,68,70,87]. The most relevant functions for recycling that were revealed in the reviewed articles in the first concept category are communication, quality, and facilitating sorting.…”

Section: Attributes Of Food Packaging That Influence Consumer Behaviomentioning

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The Role of Food Packaging Design in Consumer Recycling Behavior—A Literature Review

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Household waste sorting at the source is an essential part of the waste management system in many countries. Correct sorting of this waste, including food packaging waste, is cost-effective, it facilitates the recycling process and enhances the quality of the recycled product. Although there is a growing body of research that studies the effect of different attributes of food packaging on household recycling behavior, the effect of these attributes on the sorting of the food packaging waste is not well known. This contribution reviews work that studies the relationship between attributes of food packaging and consumer sorting behavior. The review highlights the potential of the visual attributes and the quality of packaging as a communication channel for encouraging consumers to sort the food packaging waste. The efficiency of the waste management system and the quality of recycled products can hence be affected by the proper design of food packaging.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4350 2 of 23 waste management scheme, and in particular in sorting at the source, have been discussed in previous studies [1,6,[16][17][18][19][20][21]. For example, the fractions that are obtained when sorting at the source (e.g., glass, plastic, and paper) have a higher quality compared to fractions obtained when sorting at MRFs, and the source separation process is less expensive [1,3,19]. Hence, correct sorting of waste fractions can increase material recycling and contribute to a circular economy.Among the different fractions of HSW, food packaging is of interest due to the increasing amount of this type of waste. Also, food packaging is estimated to be more than one-third of the total global packaging market [22,23]. However, the amount of recycled food packaging waste still is not sufficient. For instance, in 2017 only 56% of the 4.4 million tons of packaging waste that was generated in Australia was recycled [24]. In the United States of America, in 2015 the recycling rate of packaging waste and containers was 53% and over 23% of packaging waste was landfilled [25]. In Sweden, approximately 60% of household mixed waste still contains recyclable packaging waste [3]. On a global scale, this amount of un-recycled food packaging waste, especially plastic packaging, can significantly harm the environment [26,27]. This impact could be reduced by proper waste sorting. Proper sorting of food packing, irrespective of whether it is plastic, paperboard, or metal, allows the material to be recycled instead of being used for energy recovery, landfilling, or dumping. Thus, food packaging waste could be a valuable resource that would have lower environmental impacts if it is sorted according to the type of the material that was used to make the packaging [1,3]. In addition, the positive correlation between increasing urbanization and packaging consumption is expected to continue [26]. This is likely to lead to a greater amount of food packaging waste in the future. It is therefore important to motivate consumers to participate in the waste sorting s...

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Section: Attributes Of Food Packaging That Influence Consumer Behaviomentioning

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The Role of Food Packaging Design in Consumer Recycling Behavior—A Literature Review

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“…From the literature review, it was found that most plastic film assessments only considered one sustainability dimension [1,3,[24][25][26]; few considered two dimensions [27][28][29]; and very few considered three dimensions [30]. Academic and corporate interest in sustainable supply chain management has risen considerably in recent years [16].…”

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“…The results indicated that the choice of a comparative LCA application was an effective method for investigating the extent to which an innovative recyclable package was environmentally preferable to an alternative non-recyclable package. Martinho et al [24] focused on increasing packaging sustainability through the use of eco-design tools and examined the factors that influenced consumer product purchasing and recycling behavior with respect to sustainable packaging. The sustainable variable was environmental awareness, which included purchase and disposal actions.…”

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A Sustainable Performance Assessment Framework for Plastic Film Supply Chain Management from a Chinese Perspective

Jiang

2016

Sustainability

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Academics' and practitioners' interest in sustainable supply chain management has received great concern in recent years. The application of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) plastic film has had a significant influence on the economic, environmental and social performance of supply chain management. However, research on the integration of these three sustainable dimensions is still rare in this field. In this paper, we identify sustainability criteria based on a triple bottom line approach (economic benefit, environmental protection and social responsibility) from the supply chain perspective, develop a hybrid multi-criteria decision making framework to evaluate the criteria and select alternatives and apply the proposed approach to a real case study at a focal BOPP plastic film company in China. In the framework, a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is used to determine the performance criteria weights and a fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) is applied to rank the alternatives. The case study finds that the economic dimension was the most important aspect with environmental second and social third. The results also verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework. This paper develops an effective and systematic approach for decision makers to conduct evaluations and select optimal alternatives for focal plastic film companies.

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“…Experiment 2 shows improvement of information on products labels, highlighting information about quantity and nutritional and quality facts. Alternative hypotheses to center research question are described (SIMMONDS; SPENCE, 2016;SILVA et al, 2017;MARTINHO et al, 2015): SPENCE H1: Price reduction inhibits the attention on information included on persuasive packaging.…”

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The influence of price and label on the consumption of persuasive packaging: considerations for the development of products

Bevilacqua¹,

Capingote²

2017

Product (São Carlos, Online)

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Labels acts as a silent seller, showing product characteristics and benefits. In the area of product development, this practice could suggest persuasion and seduction through abusing practices as Greenwashing, Trade Dress, and questionable quality certifications. In this context, this paper has the objective of researching price and label information influence in persuasive packaging consumption. Two paired experiments analyze price and information influences, manipulating these variables (price and label information) to verify behavior on 60 frequent consumers. Promotional price tags and new labels were created in order to verify consumer choices. Contrary to expectations, despite of warnings about suspicious strategies used in packaging, consumers kept buying small amounts and products of lower quality or unethical, because of their lower prices. We conclude that increasing each product's information on the label, will not inhibit persuasive product consumption, otherwise will improve the final decision, just like it will improve the choosing process of products' baskets. Theoretical contribution: the consumer should be seen as an individual of groupings of products and not of isolated items. Excession is made for the case of Greenwhasing which has presented itself as an effective practice of market seduction. Consumer units or Diderot units have been investigated as a consumer effect for a specific consumer choice over subsequent goods. Practical contribution: from applied studies aimed at the search for consumer well-being and quality of life, we seek in this study to highlight healthy marketing practices that have less adverse effects on consumption and after sales of goods. Studies on Transformative Consumer Research.

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Factors affecting consumers’ choices concerning sustainable packaging during product purchase and recycling

Cited by 218 publications

References 73 publications

The Role of Food Packaging Design in Consumer Recycling Behavior—A Literature Review

The Role of Food Packaging Design in Consumer Recycling Behavior—A Literature Review

A Sustainable Performance Assessment Framework for Plastic Film Supply Chain Management from a Chinese Perspective

The influence of price and label on the consumption of persuasive packaging: considerations for the development of products

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