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CPP Sustainability & Environmental Packaging Flashcards

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  1. Which sustainability framework ranks packaging strategies from most to least preferred, starting with 'Refuse'?

    Answer: The Waste Hierarchy (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Dispose)

    The Waste Hierarchy places prevention and reduction at the top, guiding packaging decisions toward the most environmentally beneficial options first.

  2. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations require which party to fund end-of-life packaging management?

    Answer: Producers / brand owners

    EPR shifts financial and operational responsibility for post-consumer packaging to the producers who place that packaging on the market.

  3. A packaging engineer switching from virgin plastic to a bio-based plastic should verify what before making sustainability claims?

    Answer: Whether the bio-based material is also recyclable or compostable in existing US infrastructure

    Bio-based origin does not automatically make a material recyclable or compostable; end-of-life fate must be confirmed against real US collection and processing infrastructure.

  4. Which metric measures the amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with producing a unit of packaging?

    Answer: Carbon footprint (CO₂e per unit)

    Carbon footprint expressed in CO₂ equivalent per unit quantifies the greenhouse gas impact of packaging production and is a key sustainability KPI.

  5. What is 'lightweighting' in the context of sustainable packaging?

    Answer: Reducing a package's mass while maintaining required performance

    Lightweighting involves engineering a package to use less material per unit while still meeting structural, barrier, and marketing performance requirements.

  6. Reusable packaging systems are most effective at reducing environmental impact when which condition is met?

    Answer: Return logistics are efficient and reuse trips are high enough to offset production impact

    Reusable packaging only delivers net environmental savings when the number of use cycles is sufficient to amortize the higher upfront production and logistics burden.