ATS: 511

SUSTAINABILITY IN TEXTILE AND

APPAREL INDUSTRY

Topic
Environmental friendly packaging and ecolabelling

Presented by,
Bhawna Sharma
 CONTENT
• Environmental friendly packaging

• Eco labelling
Features
Goals
Benefits
Category of Ecolabelling Programmes
 Packaging
• The packaging industry accounts for one of the most
significant volumes of virgin paper and plastic worldwide.

• Studies suggest that 50 per cent of paper and 40 per cent

of plastic produced per year is used for packaging.
 Environmental friendly
packaging

• Environmental friendly packaging must be:

Reusable
Recyclable
Compostable
• Reusable and Recyclable packaging is not an immediate
solution to all the packaging challenges today.
• Compostable packaging need to be accepted to save the
environment.
 Compostable Packaging

To be called compostable:
• A material must disintegrate during the composting cycle.

• It must not cause any problem to the process, the final

product or the compost .
Compostable Packaging
 Compostable Packaging
Composting is a beneficial waste management system,
mainly where landfill sites are limited and that too among
the more densely populated locations.
The primary degradation mechanism of poly-lactic acid
(PLA) is
• hydrolysis
• catalysed by temperature
• bacterial attack on the fragmented residues
In composting, the moisture and heat in the compost pile
attack the PLA polymer chains, split them apart, and
create smaller polymer fragments and lactic acid.
 Compostable Packaging

• Microorganisms in the compost piles then consume these

produced polymers and acids for energy.

• This process involves bacteria and fungi for the

degradation of PLA.

• The final result produces carbon dioxide, water, and some

humus.
 Ecolabeling
• Eco-labels are seals of approval given to products that
are deemed to have fewer impacts on the environment
than functionally or competitively similar products.
• It is a voluntary method of environmental performance
certification and labelling that is practised around the
world.
• Eco labels or Green Stickers are labelling systems for food
and consumer products.
• Eco labels have the potential to significantly reduce
environmental degradation associated with Resource
extraction and Manufacturing Process.
 Ecolabelling
• Eco-labels are affixed to products that pass eco-friendly
criteria laid down by government, association or
standards certification bodies.

• The criteria utilise extensive research based on the

product's life cycle impact on the environment.

• Examples of eco-labels include the Japanese Eco Mark,

International Energy Star, USA Green Seal and UK
BREEAM.
 Features
• Products awarded an eco-label have been assessed and
verified by an independent third body and are guaranteed
to meet certain environmental performance requirements.
• Eco-labels may focus on certain environmental aspects of
the product, eg energy consumption, water use, source of
timber, etc,
• Eco-labels are usually funded and backed by the national
government, but administered by an independent body.
• Consumers also benefit from eco-labelling schemes
through education, and the ability to compare prices and
environmental performance of products.
• Eco-labelling can have implications for trade and can
influence the design and manufacture of products.
 Goals
Eco-labelling can accomplish several goals:
• Improving sales or image of a labelled product;
• Stimulating consumer awareness about environmental
impact of products;
• Directing manufactures for the environmental impact of
their products; and
• Ultimately improving the quality of the environment
and encouraging the sustainable management of
resources.
The overall goal of eco-labelling is to encourage the demand
for and supply of those products and services that cause less
stress on the environment, thereby stimulating the potential
for market-driven continuous environmental improvement.
 Benefits
1. Informing consumer choice

2. Promoting economic efficiency

3. Stimulating market development

4. Encouraging continuous improvement

5. Promoting certification

6. Assisting in monitoring
 Categories of Ecolabelling Programmes
First party labelling schemes
• These are established by individual companies based on
their own product standards.
• The standards might be based on criteria related to
specific environmental issues known to informed
consumers through the media or advertising.
• This form of ecolabelling can also be referred to as self-
declaration.
Categories of Eco labeling Programs
Second party labelling schemes
• These are established by industry associations for their
members products.
• The members elaborate certification criteria, sometimes
by drawing upon external expertise from academia and
environmental organizations.
• Verification of compliance is achieved through internal
certification procedures within the industry, or
employment of external certifying companies.
Categories of Ecolabelling Programmes
Third party labelling schemes
• These are usually established by an initiator (public or private)
independent from the producers, distributors and sellers of the
labelled products.
• Products supplied by organizations or resources that are certified
are then labelled with information to the consumers that the
product was produced in an environmentally friendly fashion.
• The label (seal) is typically licensed to a producer and may appear
on or accompany a product derived from a certified fishery or
producer.
• Producers are usually expected to track the chain of custody of
their products in order to ensure that the products derived from
the certified fishery are in fact those that are so labelled.
 eco labels
Thank you!
GOTS ISO

OCSCS RDS

RWSS FLOCERT

Green Seal FWF

 Eco labels

SA 80000 Bluesign

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SFAA Responsible Care

ZDHC
REACH

OEKO TEX
Cradle to Cradle
 Eco labels

Fair trade

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RCS

LEED
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