Packaging plays a major role in the environmental footprints of products from any industrial sector, and thus is important to address the sustainability issues of packaging. Packaging and the packaging sector have to be eco-conscious as there are many types of packaging across various industrial sectors and so are their environmental impacts as well. Plastic packaging is one of the most common element and the packaging sector accounts for almost 40% of plastic pollution in the world. Sustainable packaging is the only way forward to alleviate the environmental devastations from the the packaging sector. This book presents case studies and discusses how to make packaging more sustainable for a better future.

Highlights the sustainable issues of packaging to alleviate pollution for a greener environment Discusses health and eco-innovations in food packaging Presents case studies from different parts of the world to highlight sustainable packaging

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Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

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Consumers' Purchase Intention and Willingness to Pay for Eco-friendly Packaging in Vietnam.- The Environmental Performance of Glass and PET Mineral Water Bottles in Italy.- Health And Eco Innovations In Food Packaging.- Analyzing the Obstacles to Sustainable Packaging in the Context of Developing Economies: A DEMATEL Approach.- Experimental Study for the Valorization of Polymeric Coffee Capsules Waste by Mechanical Recycling and Application on Contemporary Jewelry Design.- Biobased Materials as a Sustainable Potential for Edible Packaging.- The Wicked Problem of Packaging and Consumers: Innovative Approaches for Sustainability Research.- Design and Development of Robust Optimization Model for Sustainable Cross-Docking Systems: A Case Study in Electrical Devices Manufacturing Company.- Active Edible Packaging: A Sustainable Way to Deliver Functional Bioactive Compounds and Nutraceuticals.- Possibilities for the Recovery and Valorization of Single-use EPS Packaging Waste Following its Increasing Generation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Case Study in Brazil. <p