sustainex 2013 - packaging design regulations robert duncan (pdf)
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Sustainex Packaging Workshop
Robert Duncan Senior Environmental Consultant
Northern Ireland Science Park, Belfast 028 90 78 73 78
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Workshop agenda
• Packaging in your business • How packaging impacts on your business
and the environment • Eco-design principles/ considerations • Principles in practice/ opportunities • Barriers and solutions • Q&A session
Exercises throughout – think about YOUR business
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What exactly is resource efficiency?
• It is about sustainable management and use of resources throughout their life cycle - from extraction, transport, transformation, consumption to the disposal of waste.
• It means producing more value with less material and consuming differently, to limit the risks linked with scarcity and for less environmental impacts, within our planet’s natural limits.
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And how does this relate to packaging?
• Considering eco-design principles • Optimising packaging use • Selecting more sustainable materials • Reducing packaging waste • Complying with packaging Regulations
=> Cost savings for your organisation.
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Levels of packaging…
Consider the total packaging system
• Primary packaging - the pack that the consumer takes home.
• Secondary packaging - inner cartons, trays, boxes. This includes retail-ready and display packaging.
• Tertiary packaging - the outer transport packaging, such as pallets and stretch wrap, that gets products to the depot or distribution centre.
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Packaging in your Business
Primary Packaging
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Packaging in your business
Secondary Packaging
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Packaging in your Business
Tertiary Packaging
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Packaging in your business
60 SECOND EXERCISE
List what types and where packaging exists in your business
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Packaging efficiency drivers
Cost Savings • Less material (weight/volume) costs less • Reduced product loss/damage costs. • Reduced incoming supplier packaging
results in reduced waste management costs.
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Packaging efficiency drivers
Supply Chain Pressures • Customers are requesting more efficient/
sustainable/green/recyclable packaging methods which business needs to adapt to cost effectively
• Show your commitment to sustainability and adapting to customer’s needs
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Packaging efficiency drivers
Legislation • Improved packaging efficiency, tracking and reporting of
packaging consumption reduces legislative costs and liability – Producer responsibility obligations (packaging waste)
Regulations – Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations
Non-compliance?... A stationery supplier was taken to court and fined because goods
ordered through its website arrived in boxes which were only 7%, 19% and 29% full.
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Packaging efficiency drivers
Marketing • Increase your company’s competitiveness
in the marketplace • Supporting your green credentials
(ISO14001, Carbon Footprinting etc.) • Good PR stories
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Packaging efficiency drivers
Logistics • Optimising process
flows • Maximising
transport loads • Minimising
warehousing
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Packaging efficiency drivers
Environmental
• Increasing % of recyclable materials used • Reduce product wastage • Reduced carbon footprint • Reduce waste to landfill
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How packaging impacts your business and the environment
60 SECOND EXERCISE
List your business drivers for and against improving packaging efficiency
(choose specific examples)
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Packaging eco-design principles
• Design for Minimisation
• Design for Reuse
• Design for Recycling
• Design for composting
These principles will be relevant to you as;
• A customer • A supplier • An end-user • A packer • A filler • A distributor
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Fit for Purpose?...
Remember why you use packaging… • Ensure product arrives in good condition • Protect the contents from hazards • Easy to open • Easy to carry • Attractive to consumers
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Design for Minimisation
• Essentially we are talking about…
– Reduce packaging volume – Reduce packaging weight
… to the minimum required to achieve functional requirements (Fit for purpose).
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Minimisation Considerations
• Could a change in product or packaging design allow a reduction in the size or weight of the packaging while maintaining its capacity?
• Could less material be used by modifying the volume sold, e.g. more sales units per box, larger portions, bulk or even loose?
• Could you reduce packaging by changing the physical nature of the contents or by using an alternative material?
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Minimisation Considerations
• Are additional materials such as intermediate layers, shrink wrap, adhesives and tapes all necessary?
• Could the distribution system be modified in a way that would reduce energy consumption or the amount of packaging needed?
• Could certain components be strengthened or weakened to reduce overall material use?
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Minimisation in Practise
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Minimisation in Practice
Booker – U.K.’s leading food wholesaler
• Worked with supplier to reduce thickness of stretch wrap from 17µm to 7µm whilst keeping the wrapping technique the same.
• A reduction in average film usage per pallet from 303g to 125g
• A reduction in annual film consumption from 315t to 130t
• Carbon emission reductions of 500t/yr • Greater than 50% saving in film cost • Improved load consolidation
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Minimisation in Practise
Other minimisation opportunities • Review light-weighting of all packaging
(e.g. glass, plastic, cans, cartons etc.) • Reducing corrugated cardboard thickness • Removing unnecessary virgin layers,
inserts or replacing with (otherwise) packaging waste.
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Interesting…
• To package the same amount of coffee; needed a glass jar weighing 470g, a metal can weighing 120g or a laminate pack weighing 11g.
• The laminated pack was not recyclable, and after use all 11g remained for disposal. However, even after 80% recycling of the metal and glass – an unlikely scenario - there was far more material left (94g glass, 24g metal) for disposal from these two options than from the laminate.
• On top of the waste aspects, the heavier packs needed three times the number of lorries to deliver the same amount of coffee.
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Minimisation Opportunities
60 SECOND EXERCISE
List what packaging minimisation opportunities may exist in YOUR business
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Design for Reuse
• Essentially we are talking about… – design to minimise lifecycle impacts, e.g. by
maximising return rates. – design for ‘closed loop’ reuse in preference to
an alternative use. … without compromising functional
requirements (Fit for purpose!).
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So what’s reusable?...
• Pallets • Drums and intermediate
bulk containers (IBCs) • Crates, boxes and trays • Separators, layer pads
and collars • Pallet boxes/systems • Metal cages and stillages
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Reuse Considerations
• Ensure that the packaging is designed for and is robust enough for re-use.
• Check that your business partners will also treat the packaging as re-usable and will return it as appropriate, or that collection arrangements are in place to enable private end-users to return it.
• Additional storage space will likely be required.
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Reuse Considerations
• Ensure that facilities for cleaning, repair or reconditioning are available if this is necessary before the packaging can be re-used.
• Obtain written confirmation from your supplier that the packaging is capable of re-use, and confirmation from your customers that they intend to place the packaging into a re-use circuit.
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Reuse in Practice
Invest NI Client Example • Swapped single use
cardboard for reusable plastic crates
• Savings of £300,000 reported and under a 2 year project payback.
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Reuse in Practice
Invest NI Client Example • Returned high value,
unrecyclable foam protecting layer and plastic inserts back to local supplier
• Reduced landfill waste costs and negotiated discount on product
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Reuse in Practice
Other reuse opportunities • Reusing incoming supplier packaging (e.g. boxes,
crates etc.) for outgoing product dispatch • Reusing incoming supplier packaging for internal
movement of product • Store and reuse bubble wrap, air pockets etc. • Engage frequent suppliers/customers to swap multiple
deliveries of single use packaging with one combined reusable packaging container
• Return secondary and tertiary packaging to supplier
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Reuse Opportunities
60 SECOND EXERCISE
List what packaging reuse opportunities may exist in YOUR business
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Design for Recycling
• Essentially we are talking about… – specifying a material with an existing and widespread
system for recovery – if possible using only one material, if not using
materials which are easy for you/the consumer to separate or do not contaminate recycling systems
– Using the maximum amount of recycled content that’s physically possible (preferably post-consumer).
… without compromising functional requirements (Fit for purpose!).
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Recycling Considerations
• Try to avoid materials, combinations of materials or designs of packaging that might create problems in collecting, sorting or recycling.
• Minimise the use of substances or materials that might create technical, environmental or health problems in the recycling process or in the disposal of recycling residues.
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Recycling Considerations
• Construct your packaging so that the end-user can easily separate any components that should not go into the recycling process (‘design for disassembly’).
• Can you have a policy for ‘recyclable’ single use packaging only?
• Minimise the use of substances or materials that might have a negative influence on the quality of the recycled material. For example, do you need a colour tint on your plastic bottle or could you achieve the same effect with an eye-catching label?
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Recycling in Practice
Other results were very positive: • Cement in plastic bags is 39% more
environmentally-friendly than other solutions. • 14% less energy is required throughout the
lifecycle of the plastic. Why is this? With plastic bags, there is less waste than with traditional bags.
• Its carbon footprint is also 45% less throughout the product's lifecycle as plastic is more resistant to perforation, which avoids losses and waste of the product on suppliers' premises and building sites.
• The reduction in product losses also leads to a fall of 81% in waste water and 52% in solid waste throughout the lifecycle.
Lafarge – World leader in building materials • Changed traditional paper-plastic unrecyclable cement bag with a
recyclable plastic bag
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Recycling in Practice
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Interesting…
WRAP research on consumer attitudes towards purchasing goods packaged in recycled plastic.
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Design for Composting
• Essentially we are talking about… – specifying compostable rather than oxo-
degradable materials – ensuring that a system is available for
collection and processing.
… without compromising functional requirements (Fit for purpose!).
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Composting Considerations
• Will your compostable packaging be lighter or heavier than the packaging it replaces?
• Will the use of biopolymers adversely affect the contents of your packaging?
• Clear and conspicuous labelling is essential to prevent it ending up in landfill!
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Composting in Practice
• Quality Street twist wrappers are now made from a compostable material which comes from a renewable resource – wood-pulp from managed plantations.
• Fully compostable mushroom-based protective packaging will be used to ship stand-up paddle surf boards from PUMA to retailers or directly to people who order them online.
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Interesting…
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Recycling and Composting Opportunities
60 SECOND EXERCISE
List what packaging recycling and composting opportunities may exist in
YOUR business
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Barriers to Implementation
Barrier 1. Supplier and/or
customer push-back 2. Lack of top
management buy-in 3. Lack of in-house
knowledge
Solution 1. Communicate proven
case studies 2. Produce a detailed
business case 3. Industry best practice
guidance or obtain support from Invest NI, packaging experts etc.
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Barriers to Implementation
Barrier 4. Fear of product
damage 5. Supplier can’t
provide alternative 6. Staff attitudes
towards packaging waste recycling
Solution 4. Run a trial before
rolling out changes 5. Source new
packaging supplier 6. Making recycling the
easier option than general waste bin
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Want to learn more?...
• Envirowise PackGuide: A guide to packaging eco-design - GG908
• NI Business Info Packaging www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/types-reusable-packaging
• Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment - www.incpen.org
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Questions?
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