PLASTIC PACKAGING 'GREENER' THAN THOUGHT

摘要

The tendency to blame plastic product packaging for the global food industry's significant carbon footprint is fundamentally flawed in both logic and fact, according to ongoing research conducted by Europe's largest manufacturer of in-jected-molded plastic packaging products Superfos AS.rnIn fact, an average drive by car from home to the supermarket to purchase groceries is likely to generate more greenhouse-gas emissions than the actual manufacture of plastic packaging for those same food products-as measured by the Danish-based company's recently-developed LCA (life-cycle analysis) modeling tool called CO_2 Calculator, recently certified by the U.K.-based Carbon Trust as a valid measurement tool for calculating the environmental impact of various forms and types of food packages.