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Web reference
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What’s the purpose of packaging?
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www.thesite.org/magazine/specials_food/consumer.packaging.html
Useful introduction from thesite.org – an information
site designed for young people
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What types of packaging are there?
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www.pasg.co.uk
Easy to use site from Packaging Solutions Advice Group
Click on: material advice
for information on steel (the ‘tin’ can and the aerosol
can) and tetrapak (the carton)
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How is steel used as a packaging material?
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www.corusspace.com
Advisory service for packaging designers from Corus
(formerly British Steel)
Click on space data
and then on
How you can use steel
Applications
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What is tetrapack?
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www.tetrapak.com
Website of the Swedish company tetrapak
Click on About tetrapak
for information about the history of the pack and its
environmental impact
Click on Tetrapak for you for news article about
recycling cartons to make panels to house homeless people,
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What about aluminium packaging?
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www.alupro.org.uk/frame5-3.htm
The story of aluminium packaging – how aluminium drinks
cans are made and how they can be recycled. (From the
Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation)
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What happens to the packaging once the product has been used?
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www.epa.gov/students/waste.htm
Student-friendly site from the US Environment Protection
Agency with information about waste, landfills and recycling
options.
www.incpen.org
Website of the Industry Council for Packaging and the
Environment
Click on Information for schools,
and then Factsheets
eg:
www.incpen.org/html/recycling_fact.htm
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What are the environmentally
friendly packaging options?
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www.friendlypackaging.org.uk/school.htm
Schools information page from the University of York
with information about:
Plastics, waste, landfills, incineration, recycling,
composting, biodegradation and starch-based plastics
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How are aluminium cans recycled?
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www.alupro.org.uk
Very readable website from the Aluminium Packaging
Recycling Organisation
Click on lifecycle
and facts and figures
(eg www.alupro.org.uk/frame9.htm
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What about re-using packaging?
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www.ag.uiuc.edu/~vista/abstract/aFOODPACK.html
A 13 page document from the University of Illinois
outlining some of the issues to consider when re-using
food containers.
www.unilever.com/environmentsociety/
respondingtoglobalissues/packaging
Information and casestudies from Unilever about the
re-use and recycling of packaging materials
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