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ClearA Systematic Literature Review on Environmental Sustainability Issues of Flexible Packaging: Potential Pathways for Academic Research and Managerial Practice
This systematic review identified key environmental sustainability challenges in flexible packaging, including plastic waste accumulation, microplastic generation, and recycling barriers, while mapping research gaps and calling for integrated lifecycle approaches to reduce its ecological burden.
Current state and research directions for disposable versus reusable packaging: A systematic literature review of comparative studies
This systematic review of 91 studies compares disposable and reusable packaging for food, beverages, and e-commerce, finding that sustainability outcomes depend heavily on context and that no single packaging type is universally superior.
An Overview of Plastic Waste Generation and Management in Food Packaging Industries
This review provides an overview of plastic waste generation and management practices in the food packaging industry globally. Researchers found that packaging accounts for approximately half of all plastic waste, with demand continuing to rise alongside population growth. The study evaluates current disposal methods, recycling challenges, and regulatory approaches while highlighting the need for sustainable alternatives to reduce plastic packaging waste entering the environment.
Identifying the Drivers of Circular Food Packaging: A Comprehensive Review for the Current State of the Food Supply Chain to Be Sustainable and Circular
This review identified the key drivers of circular food packaging adoption, examining how circular economy principles applied to packaging can address sustainability challenges related to food safety, shelf life, waste reduction, and environmental impact.
System innovation and life cycle thinking in packaging value chain: the circularity of plastics.
This paper examines the role of circular economy principles in reducing plastic packaging waste, noting that despite existing recycling systems, plastics remain pervasive environmental contaminants. The authors argue that redesigning packaging systems for recyclability and reducing over-packaging are essential steps to address microplastic pollution at its source.
The role of sustainable packaging in reducing environmental pollution
This review examines how sustainable packaging — using biodegradable materials, reducing excess packaging, and improving recyclability — can reduce environmental pollution. The paper evaluates different sustainable packaging strategies and their effectiveness at reducing plastic waste, which is the primary source of microplastic pollution.
Design framework for circular and sustainable packaging design
Researchers developed a novel packaging design framework integrating circularity and sustainability (C&S) criteria using literature review, expert brainstorming, and field visits. The framework addresses conflicts between sustainability and functional requirements and provides practical iterative strategies for packaging designers.
An Integrated Analysis of Plastic Packaging Value Chain: Identifying Barriers and Enablers for a Circular Economy
Researchers analyzed the full plastic packaging value chain to identify barriers and enablers for transitioning to a circular economy, tracing the evolution of circular economy concepts and quantifying the environmental impacts associated with exponential plastic waste growth. The study provides an integrated framework mapping opportunities for intervention across production, use, collection, and recycling stages.
Sustainable food packaging: An updated definition following a holistic approach
Researchers proposed an updated, holistic definition for sustainable food packaging by analyzing 38 related terms across the food systems domain. The study found that the lack of a commonly accepted definition has led to uninformed packaging choices by stakeholders throughout the value chain, and the work aims to help producers, distributors, practitioners, and consumers make better decisions about sustainable food packaging alternatives.
Environmental Impact of Plastic Waste: Strategies for Sustainable Management
This systematic review summarizes the environmental and health impacts of plastic waste and evaluates strategies for sustainable management. It highlights that plastic pollution threatens ecosystems and human health through microplastic contamination, and examines approaches like recycling, biodegradable alternatives, and policy interventions to reduce exposure.
Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach
Researchers modeled plastic packaging material flows across the EU using a hybrid input-output approach, mapping supply chains by polymer type, packaging form, and application category to reveal that packaging represents a major fraction of plastic consumption with significant gaps in end-of-life recycling infrastructure.
Sustainable Packaging Innovations and their Impact on Electronic Industry and Pharmacy Industry
This review examines sustainable packaging innovations in the electronics and pharmaceutical industries, summarizing adoption of biodegradable materials, recyclable designs, and bio-based polymers as industry-wide strategies to reduce plastic waste and carbon footprints.
Unsustainable Packaging Waste – Growing Pressure on Indian Landfills
This study examines the growing problem of packaging waste in India, where rapid e-commerce growth and inconsistent plastic bans have led to increasing volumes of hard-to-recycle packaging in landfills. The authors note that most Indian cities still struggle with basic waste segregation, and mixed dry waste often ends up in landfills rather than recycling facilities. The research highlights the need for better waste management infrastructure and consistent enforcement of packaging regulations.
Evaluating the Environmental and Health Impacts of Disposable Plastics: Toward Sustainable Material Alternatives
This review synthesized evidence on the environmental and health impacts of disposable plastics, drawing on environmental science, health studies, and sustainability literature. The paper examined how plastic waste drives ocean pollution and wildlife harm while exploring sustainable alternative materials and policies.
Evaluating the Environmental and Health Impacts of Disposable Plastics: Toward Sustainable Material Alternatives
This review examined the environmental and health impacts of disposable plastics and explored sustainable alternatives, drawing on secondary literature across environmental science and health disciplines. The paper assessed plastic waste contributions to ocean pollution and proposed strategies to mitigate these challenges.
Problems of environmental pollution with microplastic waste and ways to solve them
This review examines the widespread presence of microplastics in the environment and their impacts on ecosystems and human health. Researchers highlight the limitations of conventional plastic food packaging and propose sustainable alternatives including bioplastics, edible packaging, and traditional materials like palm leaves. The study provides practical guidelines for transitioning away from conventional plastics to reduce microplastic contamination.
Recent Recycling Innovations to Facilitate Sustainable Packaging Materials: A Review
This review examined recent recycling innovations for sustainable packaging materials across meat, pharmaceutical, beverage, and electronics industries, evaluating how different recycled materials compare in terms of performance and environmental impact.
A Critical Analysis of the Rising Global Demand of Plastics and its Adverse Impact on Environmental Sustainability
This critical review examined global trends in plastic demand and mismanaged plastic waste, identifying the top contributing countries and evaluating plastic replacement alternatives, arguing that reducing consumption and improving waste management infrastructure are more impactful than material substitution alone.
Harm of Delivery Packaging on Environment and Improvements
This paper examines the environmental impacts of excessive delivery packaging waste from the e-commerce boom, calling for packaging reduction, reuse, and use of biodegradable materials. Reducing single-use plastic packaging is one of the most direct ways to decrease the plastic that eventually fragments into microplastics in the environment.
Sustentabilidade no processo produtivo da indústria cosmética: uma revisão da literatura
This systematic literature review examined sustainability practices in the cosmetics industry, including the growing concern over microplastic ingredients in cosmetic products. The review identified trends toward greener formulations, sustainable packaging, and consumer-driven pressure for environmental responsibility. The cosmetics sector is increasingly recognizing its environmental impact and exploring alternatives to synthetic microplastics.
Analysis of Sustainable Takeaway Packaging Design Strategies Based on AHP
Researchers analyzed sustainable takeaway packaging design strategies in China using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to evaluate and prioritize design approaches addressing plastic waste from the country's rapidly growing food delivery sector. They found that integrating sustainability principles into packaging design required structured weighting of criteria derived from sustainable keyword analysis and expert questionnaire scores.
What Hinders the Development of a Sustainable Compostable Packaging Market?
This review examines the barriers hindering the development of a sustainable compostable packaging market as an alternative to conventional plastics, noting that roughly 80% of marine litter originates from plastic food packaging. The authors identified regulatory fragmentation, consumer confusion, and inadequate industrial composting infrastructure as the main obstacles slowing the transition to compostable solutions.
Smart Material Choice: The Importance of Circular Design Strategy Applications for Bio-Based Food Packaging Preproduction and End-of-Life Life Cycle Stages
This review examined circular design strategies for bio-based food packaging materials, finding that integrating lifecycle thinking into material selection and packaging design significantly reduces environmental impact, and that bio-based plastics can contribute to a circular economy if end-of-life infrastructure supports proper composting or recycling.
Potential Routes to the Sustainability of the Food Packaging Industry
This study investigates sustainability challenges in the food plastic packaging industry, examining how a Polish manufacturer navigates compliance with sustainability requirements and identifying practical barriers to reducing plastic use and improving end-of-life outcomes.