Taking the product and packaging from manufacture to the customer through retail channels can also lead to environmental impacts:
- Packaging – Is your product appropriately packaged? Can it still protect and present the product adequately with less material? Could the packaging be made returnable or reusable to reduce impacts?
- Distribution - How, and how far is your product transported to the customer? Can this distance be reduced? Can shrinking and lightening your product and packaging reduce transport costs and impacts? Is it distributed only when necessary?
Lifecycle
| Raw Materials | Manufacture | Retail | Use | End of Life