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"Packaging has become an essential instrument for sustainable development since it can guarantee protection, distribution, and safe consumption of food, medicine, and general goods. Civilization's history and development are highly intertwined with the materials used to produce packages an...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Packaging has become an essential instrument for sustainable development since it can guarantee protection, distribution, and safe consumption of food, medicine, and general goods. Civilization's history and development are highly intertwined with the materials used to produce packages and their construction, transportation, and commerce. From the clay amphoras used to deliver olive oil and wine across the Mediterranean during Roman and Egyptian times, to the local delivery of food in modern societies, to the freight transportation of goods from China to the U.S., to the delivery of goods to the current space mission, and the future Mars exploration program, packaging has played a fundamental role in making all these enterprises possible. Yet, the other side of packaging that has become an issue for modern society as population numbers expand is its disposal and the contamination of the environment by single-use packaging, mainly due to the lack of formal collection and waste management systems in low-income economies worldwide. As societies have become more dependent on packaging systems to guarantee their well-being and development, our relationship with packaging has become more complex, requiring a deep and all-inclusive understanding of the benefits and responsibility of implementing packaging systems"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 469 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119878100 1119878101 |
| Index Number: | TD195 |
| CLC: | X705 |
| Call Number: | X705/A927 |
| Contents: | The role of packaging in sustainable development -- Design thinking : the packaging design process -- Packaging in the upstream and downstream supply chains -- Pollution and risk management -- Soil pollution -- Water pollution -- Air pollution -- Global climate change -- Life cycle assessment -- Municipal solid waste -- Reduction -- Reuse -- Recycling -- Aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation -- Incineration of municipal solid waste with energy recovery -- Landfill -- Litter and marine pollution -- Keeping in perspective. |