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Ready to consume edible products packed and collected or delivered to doorstep (burger for instance) still leaving substantial and growing inorganic packaging residual for good, as more and more people placing order online.
Edible products with little shelf life (Juice for instance)
consumed or expired soon leaving it's packaging footprint mostly local but
forever or for too long. Consumers must be informed that such products don't
suddenly gets expired one fine day, give them the range and chart stating how
consistency and taste may get compromised over time still in consumable range,
also tell them how to increase shelf life.
Non-edible products coming with shelf life and consumed in
numbers ( Shampoo for instance), have regional, sometimes national packaging
waste footprint. Mostly delivered across regions by e-commerce websites.
Non perishable products having only expiry date wrt trend
(shoes for instance) and consumed in bulk witnesses global packaging waste
footprint.
Then there are another kind of packaging waste burden i. e.
where individual or collective packaging weight and/or volume is rather more or
many fold of product/s inside, and having huge market. (Gift hampers, festive
gifts etc. for instance). In this category higher you go up towards luxury
segment more wastage is witnessed.
Bulk packaging is being excluded from the discussion as they
have relatively organised supply-collection chain and higher recycling
percentage.
Author:Anoop Jha
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