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Food Loss & Waste & Food Packaging
Extent, Causes and Solutions, and the Link with Developing Countries
Packaging and the Internet
The way we buy things is changing. The convenience and competitiveness of being able to shop via the Internet is altering the retail landscape. ‘Click and collect’ services are growing rapidly. Most retailers offer some form of home delivery or click-and-collect service. In many cases shops have become little [...]
Municipal Waste Composition 2006/2007
This report presents estimated compositional analysis of England’s municipal waste and recycling streams. It uses data collated and analysed from the most recent national compositional estimates, reported in Defra WR0119: Municipal Waste Composition: A Review of Municipal Waste Component Analyses, Resource Futures 20101, hereafter referred to as the WR0119 [...]
Why products are packaged the way they are
The average household in the UK buys over 4,000 items of food and other products every year. In the UK as a whole, 25 million households buy over 100 billion items every year. Over 75% of those purchases are grocery products – mainly food and drink but also household [...]
Packaging in Perspective
This publication was produced to provide facts about the much discussed subject of packaging recovery and recycling. It aimed to provide the public and others with an outline of what the UK achieved and what was being done in 2008.
A Survey of INCPEN Members – Driving Sustainability
AEA were commissioned by INCPEN to carry out a study looking at the current environmental performance of their members (August 2010).
Partnership and Packaging
Everyone, including manufacturers and retailers, wants as little packaging as possible but most of it is essential for our daily lives and overall it prevents ten times more waste than it generates. Manufacturers and retailers are working to make packaging more resource efficient and, where possible, reduce it and [...]
Common Understandings and Common Sense
This guidance was produced by Local Government Regulation (LGR) and INCPEN to aid businesses and local trading standards authorities. Their purpose was to offer preliminary guidance on complying with the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 1998 updated in 2003.
Table for One
Much effort has been spent reducing packaging waste, both by reducing packaging at the design stage and also by increasing the amount of used packaging that is recovered and recycled. This will continue but it needs to be done in the context of the role that packaging plays in [...]
A PackGuide to Packaging Eco-Design
Have you ever been told by a senior manager that your future packaging has to be one of the following - recyclable, re-usable, compostable, minimised? Or maybe a combination of some of them? If so, then this is the guide for you. The PackGuide has been produced by Envirowise [...]