This publication is intended to help both management and designers/specifiers to take a fresh and systematic look at packaging design with a view to reducing its cost and its impact on the environment. It focuses mainly on primary product packaging, although it also covers secondary (collation) and tertiary (transit) packaging. Although designed essentially for designers, technologists and specifiers, it should be of value to local authority Trading Standards Officers who enforce the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 1998, and to those running industrial design courses. The publication leads the reader through the main approaches to packaging design, from reducing the use of hazardous substances, through resource minimisation and recycling/re-use, to design for final disposal. It also contains more detailed information about packaging legislation and the raw materials used in packaging.
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