Sustainable Packaging from Waste
Material: A Review on Innovative
Solutions for Cleaner Environment
Paneti Rajesh and V. Subhashini
Abstract Packaging plays a very important role in our daily life especially when
buying commodities from a retail or a wholesale store. The importance of packaging
is when items are shipped around the world, which in recent years is on a daily basis.
Though packaging ensures the safety and durability of the merchandise and carries the
brand name of the seller, it leads to accumulated waste where most of these conventional packing materials cannot be recycled. With the large amount of companies
transporting goods from factories to warehouses and then to retailers, as well as the
enormous online orders placed daily, there is a massive amount of plastic waste such
as Styrofoam, cardboard, and paper that are utilized in the process. However, sustainable packaging is a boon to this problem, which is referred to as Green packaging; it
offers an environmental friendly alternative playing a great role in protecting products, preventing waste and enabling efficient business conduct promoting environmental sustainability. Sustainable packaging is made by recycling materials thereby
reducing the waste during production or raw material processing. The manufacturing
process of such packaging materials also tends to be more efficient, further minimizing resources needed and reducing the negative impact that the business has on
the environment. Sustainable packaging is produced in an environmentally friendly
manner through the use and reuse of biodegradable and recyclable materials and is
considered energy efficient. As a part of Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainable
packaging is a relatively new addition to the environmental considerations, where,
reduced as well as ecofriendly material for packaging provide an attractive opportunity to promote environmental sustainability. Industries, Promoters and Companies
using such packaging material not only reduce their carbon footprint but campaign
the use of recycled materials minimizing waste generation. Through this, it is indirectly aimed at preserving the world’s ecosystems, improving human life quality and
viability for a longer period. Moreover, sustainable packaging is economically viable
P. Rajesh (B)
Sanitation and Environment Secretary, Municipal Corporation of Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India
e-mail: panetirajesh@gmail.com
V. Subhashini
Department of Environmental Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh,
India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. Prashanthi et al. (eds.), Bioremediation and Green Technologies, Environmental
Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64122-1_18
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Material: A Review on Innovative
Solutions for Cleaner Environment
Paneti Rajesh and V. Subhashini
Abstract Packaging plays a very important role in our daily life especially when
buying commodities from a retail or a wholesale store. The importance of packaging
is when items are shipped around the world, which in recent years is on a daily basis.
Though packaging ensures the safety and durability of the merchandise and carries the
brand name of the seller, it leads to accumulated waste where most of these conventional packing materials cannot be recycled. With the large amount of companies
transporting goods from factories to warehouses and then to retailers, as well as the
enormous online orders placed daily, there is a massive amount of plastic waste such
as Styrofoam, cardboard, and paper that are utilized in the process. However, sustainable packaging is a boon to this problem, which is referred to as Green packaging; it
offers an environmental friendly alternative playing a great role in protecting products, preventing waste and enabling efficient business conduct promoting environmental sustainability. Sustainable packaging is made by recycling materials thereby
reducing the waste during production or raw material processing. The manufacturing
process of such packaging materials also tends to be more efficient, further minimizing resources needed and reducing the negative impact that the business has on
the environment. Sustainable packaging is produced in an environmentally friendly
manner through the use and reuse of biodegradable and recyclable materials and is
considered energy efficient. As a part of Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainable
packaging is a relatively new addition to the environmental considerations, where,
reduced as well as ecofriendly material for packaging provide an attractive opportunity to promote environmental sustainability. Industries, Promoters and Companies
using such packaging material not only reduce their carbon footprint but campaign
the use of recycled materials minimizing waste generation. Through this, it is indirectly aimed at preserving the world’s ecosystems, improving human life quality and
viability for a longer period. Moreover, sustainable packaging is economically viable
P. Rajesh (B)
Sanitation and Environment Secretary, Municipal Corporation of Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India
e-mail: panetirajesh@gmail.com
V. Subhashini
Department of Environmental Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh,
India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. Prashanthi et al. (eds.), Bioremediation and Green Technologies, Environmental
Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64122-1_18
259