Concept of eco packaging where the material can be recycled

Packaging is an unavoidable part of everyday life. It protects products, preserves them, enhances them, displays important information, acts as a marketing tool and allows for safe transportation. However, the unfortunate truth is that packaging is often viewed as waste. Even worse, packaging often ends up this way too.

Therefore a key consideration of good packaging design involves the generation of less waste following the end of its’ useful life, whilst still helping end-consumers to use it and the contained products efficiently. Before beginning to ascertain whether recyclable packaging is suitable for your business, it is important to fully understand what is meant by this, as well as a lot of the other commonly used terms such as biodegradable, eco-friendly, reusable and so on.

There are effectively three main types of what are often considered environmentally friendly packaging: 

1. Reusable / returnable packaging: This is any form of packaging that can be cleaned and re-used. An example most people would be aware of is glass milk bottles are simply cleaned and reused. Recyclable packaging: This is packaging made of materials that can be used again, usually after processing.

2. Recyclable materials include glass, metal, card, paper and – increasingly – certain plastics. However, by far the most common form of recycled packaging is corrugated cardboard.

3. Biodegradable packaging: This covers any packaging and material will easily break down in the soil or the atmosphere.

Whilst materials of office supplies such as glass and metals will eventually break down over time, the most common form of biodegradable packaging is paper based material such as card and corrugated.

For more details on this, please browse www.greenstat.co.uk 

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