Reducing Packaging Waste with Sustainable Packaging Solutions
The goal of Panda Scientist is to reduce the negative environmental effects of customer education and consumers’ action through eco-conscious practices and solutions for sustainable packaging.
Whether it is unpleasant or pleasant, one will have to package products for damage, spoilage, or contamination prevention. For the most unfortunate part of the planet, though, many packaging materials could create enormous environmental impacts, especially plastic wastes.
The seas, the skies, and even the countries suffer the dire consequences of littering. Important problem solutions cannot be held up overnight, yet they cannot be overlooked. The excessive waste from packaging destroys a great deal of our environment. Both companies and consumers need to do something about reducing and controlling the damaging effects.
What Harms the Planet?: Environmental Impact Definition
Before we can commit to environment-friendly packaging, we should look a bit into what the environmental impact is in packaging itself.
Environmental impact means the over packaging products waste they generate and their emissions associated with manufacturing and disposal. Every packaging has an ecological effect on this planet. However, these effects must be reduced for a healthier world.
Different from other types of waste, plastic waste is often believed to contaminate the environment.However, all types of packaging still contribute and add up to a significant problem that must promptly be addressed.
It all starts at the beginning of a package’s life cycle and continues throughout, leaving a negative environmental footprint each step of the way. Right from their origin to disposal, most of the packages are of great concern to the environment. Thus, inorder to understand the environmental impact packaging can cause, we shall examine three main stages in a package’s life cycle.
Sourcing and Production
The problem with most wasteful packaging begins right at its creation. All forms of packaging require a certain amount of resources and energy to manufacture. Manufacturing can, and most likely will, emit greenhouse gases harmful to our air, produce harmful heavy metal particulates, or dump toxic waste sludge into our waters.
Even factors such as water use, chemicals, petroleum, or collection of wood and other resources contribute to the environmental impact caused during production.
Transportation
But it is not just the production of wasteful packaging that harms the environment. The transportation of packaging also affects the environment. Air pollution through airplanes, ships, and trucks also harms the planet! Fuel is needed to move packaging from one point to another. And though we will always need transportation, there are ways to lighten this inevitable impact, which we will discuss soon.
Disposal of Packaging Waste
Disposal, the last major factor affecting the environmental impact of packaging, constitutes the end-of-life cycle for such packaging. All types of packaging affect the environment, and comparatively, the mismanagement of packaging plastic affects the environment in a serious manner. Plastics litter most of our oceans and streets, which in turn seriously harm birds and aquatic life.
Environmentalists say that in 2016 alone, approximately 23 million metric tons of plastic waste entered the ocean, where submerged wildlife and avian species often become entangled in debris or mistake it for food. As reported by Ocean Conservancy, plastic debris were present in 59 percent of seabirds, 100 percent of the sea turtles sampled, and more than 25 percent of sampled fish from seafood markets worldwide. Worse still, this statistic has been on the rise.
So, steps and initiatives must be taken to minimize the plastic waste problem and packaging’s harmful environmental footprint in general.
Our Options to Reduce Impact Plastics and Provide Sustainable Packaging Solutions
With advancing technology and the innovation of alternate, sustainable modern packaging, businesses and consumers may start taking the appropriate steps to reduce the environmental impact of excessive packaging and move toward waste-free packaging.
Here at PakFactory, our mission is to provide the solutions you need to impact the environment positively through eco-packaging:
Responsible Sourcing of Materials – We use resources from certified facilities that utilize sustainable practices to ensure all materials used in projects are renewable and optimized.
Clean Manufacturing – We use clean, renewable energy during manufacturing and consolidate print jobs to minimize print sheet requirements. Our facilities also recycle, reuse, and compost any waste related to manufacturing.
Design and Engineering – We tailor your projects to be sustainable at every step of their journey, from manufacturing to disposal. Whether you use less packaging, and less ink, or opt to use more recycled materials, PakFactory offers many sustainable packaging designs. We also provide alternate, sustainable packaging materials, inks, and finishes to ensure effective recycling that contributes to a circular economy.
Carbon Neutral Logistics and Shipping – We are committed to achieving carbon-neutral shipping via optimized route planning, bulk shipments, and aggregate packaging.
Fulfillments – We provide solutions to reduce labor-intensive and wasteful processes by complying with 3PLs and automated packaging systems to maximize efficiency.
Recycling and Waste – All our services provide responsible end-of-life disposal made easy and contribute to a circular economy!
Benefits of Reducing Environmental Impacts
With the negative impacts of wasteful packaging in mind and the solutions we offer to fix these problems, you might wonder about the benefits of implementing environmental packaging solutions in your next project and how it affects your business.
In essence, these worthy changes not only promise to save our planet but also bestow on your company a great brand image, improved productivity and business cost savings, as well as better profits! Generally speaking, much more favors many fold for businesses converting to sustainability; hence excuses are not warranted by firms for not attending to the earth!
Still don’t believe us? Just check how sustainable packaging contributes to profits, or down below are some of Panda Scientist’s success stories!
- Sonhab Chocolate
- Belle Vie Candle
- Tideline Coffee
Positive Change Starts With Everyone
Change your time zone a little over 24 hours behind, for the earth is our home and reflects everything we do; this is a long process, of course. Of course, companies and consumers can and must engage each other to come up with some sustainable practices that would minimize the environmental footprint, and Panda Scientist is a great way to start!
Raising your business and progressing towards the path of sustainable packaging, contact us anytime. Our specialists are very keen and willing to respond to any questions.
