The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) defines Sustainable Packaging as:
- Beneficial, safe and healthy for individuals and communities throughout its lifecycle;
- Able to meet market criteria for performance and cost;
- Sourced, manufactured, transported and recycled using renewable energy;
- Able to maximize the use of renewable or recycled source materials;
- Manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices;
- Made from materials healthy in all probable end-of-life scenarios;
- Physically designed to optimize materials and energy;
- Effectively recovered and utilized in biological and/or industrial cradle-to-cradle cycles.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sustainable packaging through principles of product stewardship
- Eliminating toxic constituents
- Using less material
- Making packaging more reusable
- Using more recycled content
- Making packaging more readily recyclable
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