Single-use Supermarket Food Packaging and its Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
| dc.contributor | Economy Division | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | United Nations Environment Programme | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Life Cycle Initiative | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Notten, Philippa | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Lewis, Yvonne | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Burke, Matthew | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Corella-Puertas, Elena | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Boulay, Anne-Marie | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Global | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-05T06:51:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-05T06:51:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-12 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-92-807-3998-5 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | DTI/2496/NA | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/41543 | |
| dc.description | Food packaging’s ever-increasing reliance on single-use plastic formats along with the persistence of plastics in the environment, adds to the long-reaching – and as yet poorly characterized – impacts of plastic pollution on ecosystems and human health. The need for alternatives to single-use packaging is clear. This report compares the environmental impacts of single-use plastic packaging versus alternative options for supermarket food, intended for home consumption. The report is part of a series of meta-analyses of Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies that provides recommendations to policy makers on alternatives to commonly used single-use plastic products. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well established tool for assessing the potential environmental impacts associated with a product or service across its whole value chain. | en_US |
| dc.format | en_US | |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.rights | Public | en_US |
| dc.subject | PACKAGING WASTE | en_US |
| dc.subject | PACKAGING | en_US |
| dc.subject | PLASTIC WASTE | en_US |
| dc.subject | PLASTIC POLLUTION | en_US |
| dc.subject | DEGRADABLE PLASTIC WASTE | en_US |
| dc.subject | LIFE CYCLE | en_US |
| dc.subject | SUPERMARKETS | en_US |
| dc.title | Single-use Supermarket Food Packaging and its Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments | en_US |
