Packaging scorecard for closed-loop logistics systems

Packaging is at the heart of manufacturers’, distributors’ and consumers’ or - in a word - any supply chains’ actors’ everyday lives. Surprisingly, it is often ignored, unknown, even unloved or demonized, because one becomes completely aware of its presence only once it adopts the “waste” status.
Researchers at Avignon University in France studied the relationship between packaging, logistics and the circular economy. They question the relevance of existing main packaging scorecards and lay the foundations for a new packaging scorecard deliberately oriented towards the circular economy principles. An article about the research is published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Click here for the published article (714 kB).

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