Renewable packaging is packaging which has been specially designed to be more environmentally friendly, leaving less of an ecological footprint when it is manufactured, used and when it comes to the end of its life cycle.
With consumers becoming increasingly concerned about environmental issues and sustainability, the impact the packaging industry makes on the world is rightly coming under ever closer scrutiny – and renewable packaging is the way forward.
What is Renewable Packaging?
In order to qualify as ‘renewable’, packaging must tick a number of boxes. It ought to be responsibly sourced from sustainable raw or recycled materials, and manufacturers might be expected to use renewable energy during its creation and transportation.
Renewable packaging should also be ‘recoverable’, in other words to have some use at the end of its working life, either by being biodegradable and theref