New SPC Guide for Sustainable Packaging Indicators and Metrics
Recent research indicates that most companies have, or are developing, some type of sustainable packaging policy.
Need a case in point? Check out this press release from Hormel Foods. Following its reduction of 5.2 million pounds of product packaging in 2008, Hormel Foods just announced several new packaging projects that will reduce its environmental footprint (while simultaneously reducing packaging and transportation costs?) even more.
Despite the interest and heightened awareness, however, sustainable packaging remains poorly understood. Packaging, itself, has a highly complex supply chain. Who, then, is responsible for measuring packaging sustainability? What attributes and impacts should be measured, and how? Which indicators and metrics are commonly used?
There are plenty of questions. (more…)
