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Sustainable packaging /

This video explores what the food industry is doing to use less packaging. First it looks at the role and function of packaging. It then looks at the challenges of designing reduced packaging that not only looks good, but gets the product to the shelves in one piece. We also see how plastic bottles...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bristol, England : Pumpkin TV, 2010.
Series:Online access: Alexander Street Press Environmental Studies In Video Outside North America.
Subjects:
Package goods industry.
Packaging > Environmental aspects.
Packaging.
Sustainable design.
Conditionnement (Emballage) > Industrie.
Conditionnement (Emballage) > Aspect de l'environnement.
Conditionnement (Emballage)
Écoconception.
Package goods industry
Packaging
Packaging > Environmental aspects
Sustainable design
documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:This video explores what the food industry is doing to use less packaging. First it looks at the role and function of packaging. It then looks at the challenges of designing reduced packaging that not only looks good, but gets the product to the shelves in one piece. We also see how plastic bottles are recycled into new food grade plastic, before being formed into salad containers. An ideal resource for students studying Food Technology, Graphic Design, Resistant Materials, Product Design, Sustainability and Citizenship.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed January 28, 2015).
Physical Description:1 online resource (31 min.).
Playing Time:00:30:03