Sustainable packaging is definitely popular and is considered the most popular packaging trend happening. This helps create less of a negative result on our planet and makes people feel good about what they buy. But what is it? How does it get defined? What are the most sustainable packaging material types out there? These are a few of the questions that we get on a regular basis, and here we’ll go over what it is, and what makes this sustainable for you as well.
What is It?
This is the type of packaging that produces very little impact directly on the world, and it’s something that does make the least pollution when it’s made, shipped, and when you dispose of it through recycling.
It’s usually defined through the creation and use of materials that offer really good sustainability, which means that there is better utilization of the cycle and the passements and inventories of the life cycles to guide your implementation to packaging, reducing the negative result of that, and also reducing your ecological footprint too.
How is something sustainable.
Not all packaging is sustainable, and this is defined by the material and the environment that it’s made in compared to alternative other kinds of items. This can be complicate das some of the materials can be sustainable, but aren’t as sustainable compared to what’s out there, so it does play a part in the complexities of this.
Greenwashing is pretty much a marketing ploy where people use green items to persuade customers that their products are sustainable, when in reality they’re not. Greenwashing does result in consumers thinking something is less harmful, but in reality, the opposite happens, and leads to more products being bought, resulting in more accumulations of not earth-friendly kinds of materials, or higher emissions, causing the items to end up in landfills, contributing to pollution of the planet.
Plastic packaging and sustainability
Plastic packaging is actually a lot better and is becoming tone of the more sustainable items for the sheer fact that polyethylene and others are totally recyclable, are able to produce less carbon when being made, transported, and recycled, and is slowly becoming one of the more sustainable items.
Even when compared to cardboard, this is slowly becoming something that people are looking at. Glass for example, is considered sustainable when you look at other types of materials, but actually has one f the highest carbon footprints out there, and these alternative solutions are definitely playing a part.
Single stream Recycling
Finally, there is single-stream recycling, which is another major complex part. This is something that pretty much all of the USA does, and the problem is, that everything gets recycled the same way. The problem with that though, is practically everything gets contaminated in this case. If it has liquids, particles of food, glues, and adhesives, or anything else contaminating it, it’ll just get disposed of willy-nilly.
When you’re looking for sustainability, you definitely want to make sure it’s something that is easy to recycle, as it can be a problem when you look at contaminating other items. You definitely want to make sure that if it’s going to be recycled, there are easy ways to do it.
Sustainability is something that a lot of companies are looking at, and with more and more people trying to find some alternatives to this, it’s vital that you make sure that you get the most sustainability possible, and also to make sure that you get the right type of recycling for the item, so that customers do it, and are happy.
