欧米における消費者包装関連の最新動向

摘要

Green purchasing has been highly promoted in the U.S. and Europe recently. As a matter of fact, packaging related exhibitions held in the world in the year of 2008 and after featured sus-tainability. Especially, Pack Expo Las Vegas held in October, 2009 focused on innovation in thernsustainable packaging machinery. Now the hottest topic for the packaging industry in the world is, without doubt, "sustainability".rnReaders will find some activities and efforts made by global leading companies for the purpose of realization of sustainability in packaging.%欧米を中心に，グリーン購入が急速に増大rnしている。1例を紹介すると，2009年の春，rn北米で購買担当のスペシャリスト約600人をrn対象に実施された調査で，次に示す注目すべrnき結果が発表された。