Packaging and the Environment

From Rubbish to Recycled - Inside a recycling centre

Sustainable Packaging

- Why package?

- The six RS

Re-thinking

Re-using

Recycling

Refusing

Reducing

Repairing

Re-packaging

Dr Helene Roberts - Head of packaging - M&S

" We balance very much about what consumers actually needed to play all the functions of pacakging meet today, but same time not excited pack in any way."

Packaging and the Environment

Lee major talks about a new green technology his company uses.

"We use a material called plantic, it's a starch-based material, it's manufactured by an Australian company, and is 100% renewable. The other benefit of this packaging is that it's consumer compostable, and by that I mean that the consumer can throw it in the bin, or throw it in their garden, and with a little bit of moisture, the products breaks down within minutes, and that residue that;s left over. Is perfectly good to put on the garden, and has no environmental effects.

Sustainable Packaging