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:: Specific Design Brief
Practical Action 2:
Packaging
- further information
PRODUCT DESIGN KENYA
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USEFUL REFERENCES
What types of packaging are there?
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)
www.pasg.co.uk
How is steel used as a packaging material?
Advisory service for packaging designers from Corus (formerly British Steel)
Click on
space data
and then on
How you can use
steel -
Applications
www.corusspace.com
What is tetrapack?
Website of the Swedish company tetrapak
www.tetrapak.com
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.
What about aluminium packaging?
The story of aluminium packaging – how aluminium drinks cans are made and how
they can be recycled. (From the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation)
www.alupro.org.uk/frame5-3.htm
What happens to the packaging once the product has been used?
Student-friendly site from the US Environment Protection Agency with information
about waste, landfills and recycling options.
www.epa.gov/students/waste.htm
What are the environmentally friendly packaging options?
Schools information page from the University of York with information about:
Plastics, waste, landfills, incineration, recycling, composting, biodegradation
and starch-based plastics
www.friendlypackaging.org.uk/school.htm
How are aluminium cans recycled?
Very
readable website from the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation
www.alupro.org.uk
Click on
lifecycle
and
facts and figures
(e.g
www.alupro.org.uk/frame9.htm)
What about re-using packaging?
Information and case studies from Unilever about the re-use and recycling of
packaging materials
www.unilever.com/environmentsociety/respondingtoglobalissues/packaging
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