Sustainable Packaging During Product Purchase and Recycling
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 43916
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability and circularity in packaging are major challenges for companies nowadays. While being an important element of the offer due to its protective and communicative roles, packaging also represents a large environmental burden. It is, therefore, important to develop systems that enable packaging sustainability and to understand consumers’ perceptions and behaviour to improve their acceptance and adoption. In this Special Issue, we welcome articles addressing approaches for fostering and improving the recycling and choice of sustainable and circular packaging.
We invite you to contribute to this issue by submitting comprehensive reviews, case studies, or research articles on this topic. Specifically, the submitted papers should address one or more of the following aspects:
- Ways to foster recycling of packaging among consumers
- Design and communication of recycling programmes and systems
- Nudges to improve recycling
- Barriers to recycling and ways to overcome these barriers
- Ways to enhance the choice of more sustainable and circular packaging
- Design and communication of sustainable packaging
- Barriers to purchasing sustainable and circular packaging
- Consumers’ perception and acceptance of new sustainable materials in packaging
Dr. Lise Magnier
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- packaging
- sustainability
- circularity
- design
- communication
- recycling
- purchase
- consumers’ evaluations
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