The sustainability of communicative packaging concepts in the food supply chain. A case study: Part 1. Life cycle assessment

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-177

  Dobon, Antonio ^a   Cordero, Pilar ^a   Kreft, Fatima ^b   Østergaard, Søren R ^c   Robertsson, Mats ^d   Smolander, Maria ^e   Hortal, Mercedes ^a  

^a ITENE (Packaging Transport and Logistics Research Institute)   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d M Smolander VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland ^*

^e VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Communicative packaging; Life cycle assessment; Packaging; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

POLYLACTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD SAFETY; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT SAFETY;

EID: 79958758216     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-011-0257-y     Document Type: Article

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