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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"plastic packaging"”.
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Plastic Packaging Elimination in the FMCG Sector
Plastic waste problem has become a pressing issue for businesses. Growing awareness of the need for the reduction of plastic waste has fully reached business reality. Companies are seeking alternatives to mitigate pressing environmental demands resulting from growth in plastics consumptions. This …
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Quantifying barriers to recycling plastic packaging in the United States
Staggering statistics about plastic waste and attendant concerns have driven multi-stakeholder engagement from entrepreneurs searching for innovative technological solutions and companies pledging circular measures to nations setting ambitious recycling targets. Yet, recycling rates for plastics …
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Blockchain with smart contract for reverse shopping of retail industry branded plastic packaging
Retail industries use an enormous number of plastics, especially packaging. "Reverse Shopping," that is, the returning of branded plastic packaging to the point of purchase (respective retail brands) by deploying blockchain with smart contracts, is our research focus. Employing a local blockchain, …
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Plastic packaging in meal kits: A life-cycle comparison of reusable and single-use packaging
… impacts than groceries, while notably the packaging is a significant contributor in the case of meal kits. To counter this, there has been a call for more environmental assessments of possible changes to meal kit packaging. This cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates the …
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Investigating the endocrine disrupting potential and cytotoxic effects of packaging leachates and plasticisers
… to a wide range of adverse health effects. Plastic packaging and films have been identified to leach chemicals/compounds into food and beverages which can negatively affect the consumer and/ or environment. Compounds which leach out of plastic materials often have hormonal activity, …
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Investigating the Impact of Health and Environmental Framing on Consumer Preference for Sustainable Food Packaging: A Choice Experiment
Plastic pollution is a growing issue that imposes not only a great environmental cost but also a great economic cost to Canada. Consequently, consumers, companies, and governments are seeking alternatives to typical PET plastic packaging, namely bioplastics. Bioplastics are seen as a more …
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Transforming Linear to Reuse Circular Supply Chains
Managing plastic waste has become a global challenge. Policy makers and companies are taking initiatives to address this global challenge through legislation, public awareness and industrial investments. These initiatives are currently guided by EMF’s Circular Economy concept leading to the …
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Flexible Food Packaging
… research is to identify which type of flexible packaging material used in the food industry creates less pollution. The Leopold Matrix was applied to assess in quantitative terms the life cycle of plastic and paper packaging, using information from various scientific articles and peer-reviewed …
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Plastic-free UCC: exploring societal and marketing levers
Plastic pollution is a visible symbol of the increasingly urgent environmental issues facing our world. Single-use plastic packaging comprises about half of plastic waste produced, much of which is used briefly before disposal (UNEP 2018). Meanwhile only approximately 9% of all plastic generated by …
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Material flow analysis of plastic in Iceland : moving towards a circular economy
This research thesis analyzes the flow of plastic materials in Iceland and highlights changes needed to move the current system towards a more circular economy. A circular economy is an economic system that seeks to use materials to their fullest without needing to send them to a landfill and helps …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la implementación de una planta productora de bebidas energizantes a base de maca, (Lepidium peruvianum chacon), complementado con frutas exóticas y endulzado en stevia
… sweetened in stevia in presentations of ecoflex plastic packaging of 300 ml The objective has been determined through analyzes divided into the following chapters: During the first 02 chapters, the general aspects of the project are detailed, through the definition of objectives and hypotheses, …
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ORGANIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS IN FOOD
… as a result of migration when in contact with plastic packaging. Therefore food grown, produced, transported or stored in a contaminated environment, i.e. in the proximity of an atmospheric discharge, may become contaminated due to migration from the air. The aim of this work was to test the …
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Aspects of pollution in False Bay, South Africa (with special reference to subtidal pollution)
… that overall densities of subtidal macro plastic debris were low, but that there are some 'hot spots' where densities are relatively high viz., Kalk Bay, Strandfontein, Mnandi, Monwabisi and Gordon's Bay. Colonising of debris by benthic organisms does occur, mostly on white plastic. Most …
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Etnobotani tumbuhan sebagai bahan kerajinan oleh masyarakat suku Osing Kabupaten Banyuwangi
… useful. However they recognize that the use of plastic packaging for a variety of daily necessities are very harmful to health and the surrounding environment, so they back to use natural material. The aims of this study is to explore the local knowledge (indigenous knowledge) on the use of …
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Polyethylene Terephthalate / clay nanocomposites. Compounding, fabrication and characterisation of the thermal, rheological, barrier and mechanical properties of Polyethylene Terephthalate / clay nanocomposites.
… of the most important polymers in use today for packaging due to its outstanding properties. The usage of PET has grown at the highest rate compared with other plastic packaging over the last 20 years, and it is anticipated that the increase in global demand will be around 6% in the 2010 ¿ 2015 …
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Inclusion of leakage into life cycle management of products involving plastic as a material choice
The accumulation of plastic waste in the natural environment has been a major environmental concern for many decades. However, the environmental impacts associated with leakage are not taken into consideration under current life-cycle based approaches, despite packaging being a major application …