Denkstatt Report

The Denkstatt report looks at the energy resources and GHG emissions of plastic packaging and compares them to alternative packaging materials, concluding that even more energy would be consumed and more GHGs produced if plastic packaging were substituted by the alternatives. In addition, many plastic packaging products enable energy savings during their
use-phase, even without being compared to other materials. Examples are packaging applications that reduce food losses or help to avoid damage to durable goods

This report on packaging was extracted from the study “The impact of plastics on life cycle energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in Europe” produced by Denkstatt and published in July 2010. The study has been critically reviewed by Adisa Azapagic, Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering at the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom and Roland Hischier, member of the Technology & Society Laboratory at
EMPA, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing & Research in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.

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