Getting Started
Need to get up to speed quickly on sustainable packaging and don't know where to begin? We've picked five areas for you to start.
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1. Cradle-to-Cradle packaging. Although regarded by many as too theoretical and not attainable in the real world, few can argue that it was the notion of cradle-to-cradle packaging that launched the modern packaging sustainability movement. Read this original article explaining the cradle-to-cradle packaging concept, published in Packaging World magazine May 2003.
2. Field Guide to Sustainable Packaging. This useful little book offers actionable strategies, inspirational success stories and essential resources for your company to begin or continue your journey towards sustainability. Also published by Packaging World magazine, it has been ordered by thousands around the world. Several companies have bought copies in bulk for multiple stakeholders in their organizations.
3. Wal-Mart Scorecard interview. Sam's Club director of packaging Amy Zettlemoyer-Lazar speaks with Packaging World in an exclusive interview on the eve of the official launch of Wal-Mart’s much debated Packaging Scorecard. Discussed are lessons learned over the past year, Wal-Mart’s progress and expectations, and criticisms of the scorecard.
4. Quick overview of Greener Package.com. Here's a quick take on how this Web site can help you achieve a greener package.
5. Sustainable Packaging Coalition. This page shows the many worthwhile projects of this industry working group, including its COMPASS software tool, sustainable metrics project, packaging design library, and environmental briefs of common packaging materials.
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I am on a recycling committee and one of my tasks is developing a carbon footprint. I work for a company that has mutiple product lines, so the learning how to properly develop a carbon footprint for each, will be best. Are there seminars or a class that I can attend/join to better understand all that is involved?
Thanks for your help,
Raeann
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It is nice to meet u online and exchanging information.would u please send me the articles that discuss aboat the off-flavors caused by packaging milk in PET due to light transmition and confirmed information aboat immigration of acetaldehydes from pet into milk?
thank u indeed.I need to use them for my presentation on yearly conference of milk and its nutritious qualiyt in Tehran.
Best Regards,Arash
I attended the Wal Mart Sustainability Conference on 4/8/2010 and Wal Mart has advised that there is a list of the suppliers that had a booth at the 2-Day Expo. Can you please let me know where on the Greener Package web site I can find this information? I have looked around a bit and cannot find the information. Thank you!
John Sikina
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