10 new ways in sustainable packaging design

1. Packaging design from the point of view of the life cycle

There are a lot of life-cycle assessment tool can help packaging designers understand the influence of the different packaging on the environment so that they can choose the right packaging material with reasonable life cycle for the products.

2. Minimize the use of packaging materials

Assess each component of the package, try whether we can minimize the use of packaging materials without affecting the integrity of the products.

3. Alternative packaging for product distribution

New machinery and new materials could make packaging supplier able to use less material to produce aggregated package, trays or shelves packaging to minimize waste packaging.

4. Looking for the reuse opportunities for packaging

The recyclable alternative packaging materials for reuse, is one of the effective ways to reduce industrial waste, the companies should also pay attention to encourage customers reuse the packaging to reduce packaging waste.

5. Improve the products

The most successful sample is home cleaning products in the area of sustainable packaging. Starting from the detergent and other cleaning agents and chemicals, household cleaning products enterprises have concentrated formula, in order to reduce the product life cycle and water consumption. In addition, they also adopted a small package and supplementary packaging to reduce the environmental impact of packaging products.

6. Recyclable packaging design

The most effective way of saving energy in the production process of the packaging material is recycling. Although many materials, such as paper and PET has been to achieve a large-scale recycling, coating, labels, and other elements enhanced packaging function is difficult to find a suitable recovery pathway. Fortunately, we already have a new option.

7. Encourage consumer packaging strategy

Currently the main technology can be used to reduce food waste is reclosable packaging, clearly marked with the date of packaging and other help separate technology to their packaging.

8.The source of packaging material

Now a growing number of retailers and consumers paid attention to improve the sustainable packaging to make sure the packaging materials employed is responsible to the environment.

9. Save spaces in the distribution process

In this point of view, the structure packaging design is very important to the logistics and distribution cost savings. Innovation structure design means less spaces in the distribution process and more effective in the logistics distribution.

10. Renewable materials as the packaging material

Packaging based on renewable raw materials - bio plastics made ​​from corn or sugar cane to the protective packaging made ​​with mushrooms has became the fastest-growing field. Compared with traditional materials, these new technologies in actual production also faces some problems.