Preventing environmental impacts of products by proper packaging: Conclusions from LCA case studies as main rationale for packaging designer toolbox

Juha-Matti Katajajuuri; Frans Silvenius; Heta-Kaisa Koivupuro; Rabbe Thun; Kaisa Grönman; Risto Soukka; Terhen Järvi-Kääriäinen; Margareetta Ollila; Mika Kuisma; Olli Miettinen; Marja Pitkänen; Helena Wessman

Preventing environmental impacts of products by proper packaging: Conclusions from LCA case studies as main rationale for packaging designer toolbox

Juha-Matti Katajajuuri
, Frans Silvenius
, Heta-Kaisa Koivupuro
, Rabbe Thun
, Kaisa Grönman
, Risto Soukka
, Terhen Järvi-Kääriäinen
, Margareetta Ollila
, Mika Kuisma
, Olli Miettinen
, Marja Pitkänen
, Helena Wessman

Aalto University
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
PTR Package Testing & Research Ltd.

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Abstract

A toolbox is being developed to support packaging and product designers, when assessing environmental impacts of the entire value chain of the food product. One main rationale of the project is to minimise environmental impacts of food products by suitable packaging. Environmental impacts of three food products (bread, ham, Soygurt drink) and their packaging alternatives with recovery options are assessed by LCA in separate case studies. One unique element within these case studies was a consumer survey on the amounts of food waste of the selected product groups generated at households, as a function of different sizes of packaging. The results of our study show that the amount of food waste is found to be a dominating factor when comparing environmental impacts of different food packaging solutions and this observation is among main rationales of the toolbox.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging
Publisher	Scientific Research Publishing
Pages	480-483
ISBN (Print)	978-1-935068-36-5
Publication status	Published - 2010
MoE publication type	B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings
Event	17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging - Tianjin, China Duration: 12 Oct 2010 → 15 Oct 2010

Conference

Conference	17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging
Country/Territory	China
City	Tianjin
Period	12/10/10 → 15/10/10

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

Packaging design
food losses
environmental impacts
sustainability

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Katajajuuri, J.-M., Silvenius, F., Koivupuro, H.-K., Thun, R., Grönman, K., Soukka, R., Järvi-Kääriäinen, T., Ollila, M., Kuisma, M., Miettinen, O., Pitkänen, M., & Wessman, H. (2010). Preventing environmental impacts of products by proper packaging: Conclusions from LCA case studies as main rationale for packaging designer toolbox. In Proceedings of the 17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging (pp. 480-483). Scientific Research Publishing.

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Preventing environmental impacts of products by proper packaging: Conclusions from LCA case studies as main rationale for packaging designer toolbox. / Katajajuuri, Juha-Matti; Silvenius, Frans; Koivupuro, Heta-Kaisa et al.
Proceedings of the 17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging. Scientific Research Publishing, 2010. p. 480-483.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific

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