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The Report on the Sustainability Assessment of Flexible Packaging

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) commissioned Battelle for this sustainability study with focus on two primary areas:

Understand the life cycle energy consumption and carbon footprint of flexible packages compared to alternatives, and
Explore the options for management of flexible packages at the end of their useful lives.

The energy consumption and carbon footprint assessment was further broken into assessing energy consumption across the life cycle of a package, carbon footprint across the same life cycle, and the potential for energy recovery at package end-of-life through routing of packages to waste-to-energy facilities. The end-of-life assessment examined conditions that promote recycling of flexible packages, and conditions that promote waste-to-energy.

Section 2 of this report presents the life cycle energy and carbon footprint assessment of flexible packaging and alternatives. The case studies used in this assessment are presented in Appendix A of the report. Section 3 of this report presents Battelle's findings on the end-of-life options for flexible packaging, specifically recycling and waste-to-energy.

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FPA's The Report on the Sustainability Assessment of Flexible Packaging is available free to all members. Simply contact FPA at 410. 694. 0800 or fpa@flexpack.org for additional copies or download them directly from the Members Only section of this website.

For non members, the price of the report is $3,500.00. If you would like more information about the The Report on the Sustainability Assessment of Flexible Packaging, or would like to order a copy, contact fpa@flexpack.org or call 410. 694. 0800. Or, you may order a copy of the report by filling out the appropriate sections of FPA's Publication List.