The drive for packaging sustainability should consider social as well as environmental issues, delegates at a conference run by Ardagh Glass heard yesterday (4 October).
The Co-op's environment manager, Chris Shearlock, said the industry needed to take a "horses for courses" approach to "make sure we get this issue right".
"Bulk importing of wine is positive, but it's not good news if it leads to major job losses in South Africa," he told delegates at the Manchester event. "There's a social dimension as well as an environmental one."
Although produce packaging was "easily picked up as a big issue", he said it would be better to focus on glass lightweighting if the main objective was to cut packaging weight, because glass accounts for around 50% of packaging material used by weight.
He also said that many brand owners "simply don't want to shift" premium products, such as whisky, to PET packaging, even though this would be "the easy option to reduce weight".
Source: packagingnews
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