Strategy of Lightweight Green Package Development

Abstract:

Under the harsh climate, environment protection and sustainable development have become a global issue. Deep impacts have been caused by over packaging. Taiwanese government has legislated for related issues. However, different understanding and cognition are aroused among industry and specific guidelines for lightweight packaging are needed, which also caused our interest to start this research. This research is based on the discussion of related Green Package documents to introduce Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to establish the development foundation of Green Package strategy. Meanwhile experts and related personnel of industrial circles have been interviewed to process reversed fuzzy logic grounded theory to analyze the main consider components of Green Package. Finally the outcome concepts and principles are introduced to Analytical Network Process (ANP) to generalize Green Package development strategy via quantification analysis and prioritization. We hope the Green Package Development Strategy could help industrial circles and also offer related reference in all respects.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 311)
• Pages: 392-397
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.311.392
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Jui Ch Tu, Hong Yi Chen, Chuan Ying Hsu, Chih Ku Chen
• Keywords: Analytical Network Process, Fuzzy Logic, Green Package, Grounded Theory, Life Cycle Assessment

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