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Sustainable Packaging During Product Purchase and Recycling

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 40649

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Lise Magnier

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Industrial Design Engineering—Product Innovation Management, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: packaging; consumer behavior; sustainability; circular economy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability and circularity in packaging are major challenges for companies nowadays. While being an important element of the offer due to its protective and communicative roles, packaging also represents a large environmental burden. It is, therefore, important to develop systems that enable packaging sustainability and to understand consumers’ perceptions and behaviour to improve their acceptance and adoption. In this Special Issue, we welcome articles addressing approaches for fostering and improving the recycling and choice of sustainable and circular packaging.

We invite you to contribute to this issue by submitting comprehensive reviews, case studies, or research articles on this topic. Specifically, the submitted papers should address one or more of the following aspects:

  • Ways to foster recycling of packaging among consumers
  • Design and communication of recycling programmes and systems
  • Nudges to improve recycling
  • Barriers to recycling and ways to overcome these barriers
  • Ways to enhance the choice of more sustainable and circular packaging
  • Design and communication of sustainable packaging
  • Barriers to purchasing sustainable and circular packaging
  • Consumers’ perception and acceptance of new sustainable materials in packaging

Dr. Lise Magnier
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • packaging
  • sustainability
  • circularity
  • design
  • communication
  • recycling
  • purchase
  • consumers’ evaluations

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Why Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Liquid Foods in Environmentally Friendly Packaging? A Dual Attitudes Perspective
by Igor Popovic, Bart A. G. Bossink, Peter C. van der Sijde and Christine Y. M. Fong
Sustainability 2020, 12(7), 2812; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072812 - 2 Apr 2020
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Considering that one of the key components of liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging is its higher price, it may not be appealing to all consumers. However, a growing body of evidence has shown that the sale of liquid food in environmentally friendly [...] Read more.
Considering that one of the key components of liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging is its higher price, it may not be appealing to all consumers. However, a growing body of evidence has shown that the sale of liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging is increasing. The purpose of this study was to analyze why consumers are willing to pay more for liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging. Drawing on the theory of dual attitudes by Wilson, Lindsey, and Schooler, this study proposes that consumer purchasing behavior can be explained through implicit and explicit attitudes. Moreover, a consumer’s ecoliteracy and ecofriendly lifestyle might be important predictors of consumer attitudes toward environmentally friendly packaging. Our conceptual model was tested on survey data from 11 countries, with a total of 7028 respondents. The study revealed that consumers’ willingness to pay a higher price for liquid food in environmentally friendly packaging could be predicted by their positive attitudes toward (a) the environmental friendliness of the packaging, (b) the brand of the liquid food, and (c) the affordability of the liquid food in the environmentally friendly packaging. Ecoliteracy and having an ecofriendly lifestyle were found to be important predictors of consumer attitudes toward environmentally friendly packaging. This study contributes to the literature that aims to explain consumers’ willingness to pay more for food in environmentally friendly packaging. It identifies how much more consumers are willing to pay for food in environmentally friendly packaging and why. Full article
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A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Meat Trays Made of Various Packaging Materials
by Daniel Maga, Markus Hiebel and Venkat Aryan
Sustainability 2019, 11(19), 5324; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11195324 - 26 Sep 2019
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In light of the debate on the circular economy, the EU strategy for plastics, and several national regulations, such as the German Packaging Act, polymeric foam materials as well as hybrid packaging (multilayered plastic) are now in focus. To understand the environmental impacts [...] Read more.
In light of the debate on the circular economy, the EU strategy for plastics, and several national regulations, such as the German Packaging Act, polymeric foam materials as well as hybrid packaging (multilayered plastic) are now in focus. To understand the environmental impacts of various tray solutions for meat packaging, a comparative environmental assessment was conducted. As an environmental assessment method, a life cycle assessment (LCA) was applied following the ISO standards 14040/44. The nine packaging solutions investigated were: PS-based trays (extruded polystyrene and extruded polystyrene with five-layered structure containing ethylene vinyl alcohol), PET-based trays (recycled polyethylene terephthalate, with and without polyethylene layer, and amorphous polyethylene terephthalate), polypropylene (PP) and polylactic acid (PLA). The scope of the LCA study included the production of the tray and the end-of-life stage. The production of meat, the filling of the tray with meat and the tray sealing were not taken into account. The results show that the PS-based trays, especially the mono material solutions made of extruded polystyrene (XPS), show the lowest environmental impact across all 12 impact categories except for resource depletion. Multilayer products exhibit higher environmental impacts. The LCA also shows that the end-of-life stage has an important influence on the environmental performance of trays. However, the production of the trays dominates the overall results. Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis illustrates that, even if higher recycling rates were realised in the future, XPS based solutions would still outperform the rest from an environmental perspective. Full article
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Factors Influencing Consumers’ Decision to Purchase Food in Environmentally Friendly Packaging: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here?
by Igor Popovic, Bart A. G. Bossink and Peter C. van der Sijde
Sustainability 2019, 11(24), 7197; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11247197 - 16 Dec 2019
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While many food producers invest in adopting sustainable and/or environmentally friendly packaging for regular foods, such as milk or juice, it remains unclear why consumers choose to buy regular food in such packaging, especially when it is more expensive and other alternatives are [...] Read more.
While many food producers invest in adopting sustainable and/or environmentally friendly packaging for regular foods, such as milk or juice, it remains unclear why consumers choose to buy regular food in such packaging, especially when it is more expensive and other alternatives are available. The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic literature review of all studies on the predictors of consumer food purchasing in environmentally friendly packaging published in the period 1994–2019. The guiding research question of this study is: Which factors influence the consumers’ decision to purchase food in environmentally friendly packaging? To review the extant research on the factors influencing consumers’ decision to purchase food in environmentally friendly packaging, we employed a systematic literature review methodology. The review revealed that, although the extant research is growing, it is very limited in terms of the theories utilized to explain consumer purchasing behavior and in the range of the tested predictors of consumers’ purchasing of foods in environmentally friendly packaging. Among the existing explanations are demographics, consumer attitudes, knowledge about the environmental effects of packaging, visual designs, functionality, cross-cultural differences, and affordability. The paper is concluded with a discussion of the implications of this systematic literature review for future research and practice. Among the leading recommendations are: (a) to go beyond Ajzen’s theoretical explanations of consumer purchasing behaviors; (b) to examine a broader set of predictors; (c) to draw on more interconnected complex models that include both internal and external factors; (d) to conduct cross-cultural comparative studies; (e) to address the gap between attitudes and behaviors; and (f) to consider the role of organizations and government in the transition to more sustainable consumer purchasing behavior, rather than only searching for individual predictors of behaviors. Full article
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