Summary:
- Excessive packaging necessitates more materials, more resources to manufacture, so entailing more costs
- excessive packaging are physically larger and heavier which place greater burden on logistics, thus incurring higher financial and environment costs.
- Reducing the amount of packaging, which reduces CO2 emission as less power and fuel are used for production and transportation
- Japanese authorities ensure that addressing the problem of consumer waste is done throughout the entire supply chain involving all stakeholders
- Mainland law, the provisions of which remain quantitatively vague, requires manufacturers to ensure packaging costs, materials, design and capacity for recycling are ‘appropriate’.
- Piecemeal legislation and initiatives that target one segment of the supply chain while neglecting other segments do not address the problem of waste for the entire supply chain, instead bottlenecks would be created, doing more harm than good
- Consumer awareness on environmental conservation is increasing; retailers recognize this and are exerting pressure on manufacturers.
- where the primary layer directly houses and protects the product, secondary and tertiary layers are the intermediate and exterior layers such as paper and cardboard/plastic sleeves and boxes
- consumers almost always discard secondary and tertiary layers while keeping the primary layer.
- Laws are critical for setting the framework in which green consumerism can occur.
- Packaging should be user-friendly so it does not have to be destroyed when opened. Also it should be normal sizes and shapes because odd shapes and large sizes are not storage friendly and don't last long.
Summary:
There are three layers of packaging, its where the primary layer directly houses and protects the product, secondary and tertiary layers are the intermediate and exterior layers such as paper and cardboard/plastic sleeves and boxes. Excessive packaging necessitates more materials, more resources to manufacture, so entailing more costs but usually ends up in the landfills. Countries like, Japan and China, have laws on excessive packaging. Like, Mainland law, the provisions of which remain quantitatively vague, requires manufacturers to ensure packaging costs, materials, design and capacity for recycling are ‘appropriate'. Some legislation are doing more harm than good, for example, Piecemeal legislation and initiatives that target one segment of the supply chain while neglecting other segments do not address the problem of waste for the entire supply chain, instead bottlenecks would be created, doing more harm than good. The packaging should be user-friendly, it should be simple sizes and shapes because odd shapes don't last long. However, consumer awareness on environmental conservation is increasing; retailers recognize this and are exerting pressure on manufacturers.
My Reflection:
After reading, sometimes I like the the excessive packaging of the products because it makes the products more flashy and presentable. But now, that excessive packaging disturbs me because to how it waste paper and it all ends up in the landfill. SAVE THE PLANET! I SPEAK FOR THE TREES! All that packaging has chemicals, paper, and it's not very useful and it's not recyclable. If I buy a product, I will tell the cashier to not put any excess packaging. Even though this is little progress to saving a planet, this will save the planet if many people did this.