Packaging Waste in the Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review
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Supply chain, E-commence, Packaging waste, Global sourcing, Return rate.Abstract
Packaging plays an important role in daily life, such as protecting the product during the transport process and extending the shelf life of the food. While people enjoy the convenience that packaging brings to our lives, packaging waste also has caused huge impacts on the environment. With the increasing awareness of the environmental impacts of packaging, reducing packaging waste is expanding rapidly across the sectors. It is found that nowadays, people’s lives are inseparable from packaging, and each person generates a large amount of packaging waste every day. In Chapter Three, options for reducing the packaging waste are discussed, including reduction, recycling, and reusing packaging. Although these methods are effective in reducing packaging waste, they still cannot completely eliminate packaging waste. In the discussion, the author presents some suggestions for reducing the environmental impacts by reducing packaging waste in the future.
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