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Foreword
The Right Stuff: Reenvisioning Waste and Our Future,
by Randy Hayes
The Packaging Landscape
- Wading Upstream in the Waste Stream
- In Packages We Trust
- Does Packaging Waste Equal Food?
- Intrinsic Environmental
Consequences of Trade-Related Transport
by Jerry Mander and Simon Retallack
- Acceptable Levels of Waste
- Curbside Confessionals
- Tracking a Package’s Footsteps
- In Search of Water from a Deeper Well
- A World of Less Bad Solutions?
- Can Packaging Have a Meaningful Life?
The Search for Solutions
- Major Obstacles Preventing Packaging Reform
- Key Leverage Points and Trends Toward Packaging Reform
- Extended Producer Responsibility and Take-Back Laws
- The Expanding Face of Extended Producer Responsibility
- Finland’s Bottle Law—Countrywide Standardization
- Source Reduction: Packing More with Less
- Hewlett-Packard: Take Away the Package to Lower the Damage
- Aveda: Optimizing Post-Consumer Content and Beyond
- Ben & Jerry’s: Getting the White Out
- Natural Systems Design: Thinking Like a Coconut
- Celery Design: The 80 Percent Solution
- Packaging Tips from the Porcupine Fish
by Janine Benyus and Dayna Baumeister
- Wood Reduction: Packaging and the Fate of the Forests
- Alliance for Environmental Innovation: The “Greener”
Boxboard Project
- Third-Party Certification Organizations and Ecolabels
- The Forest Stewardship Council: Certified Wood and the Well-Managed
Working Forest
- Processed Chlorine-Free Packaging
- The Rise of the Mini-Mill
- Durango-McKinley: Leading-Edge Linerboard
- Regale: 21st Century Egg Carton
- The Carbohydrate Economy: On the Trail of Bioplastics
- Cargill Dow: The Corntainer
- The Global Revival of Local Economies
A Future Beyond the Box
- Bad Wraps
- Packaging that Works
- What You Can Do
- Wraps at-a-Glance
- Beyond-the-Box Packaging Solutions
Assessment of Packaging Practices
Tips on Green Packaging
Notes
Selected Bibliography and Recommended Reading
Index
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