Moving Towards Sustainable Food & Fresh Produce Packaging
Working towards 2030 plastics reduction targets
Canada’s food and produce industry faces the challenge of reducing the impact of plastics packaging on our shared environment. The Sustainable Packaging Guide for Food and Fresh produce provides valuable information and guidance to the industry so they can make the best packaging choices today. Providing a helpful packaging decision making framework, an interactive packaging assessment tool and valuable information such as market-leading use cases, the Guide is a valuable resource to help improve sustainable packaging decision-making.
Who Can Benefit from this Guide
Recognizing that expertise and experience can vary significantly across the industry, the Guide aims to support the following users:
- Packaging Novice: a user seeking overall guidance and direction in identifying sustainable packaging options. The interative assessment tool is recommended to help identify leading options.
- Packaging Practitioner: a user with a general direction to their sustainability strategy, looking for additional information and relevant use cases. The interactive assessment tool may provide value depending on the sustainable packaging options under consideration.
- Packaging Expert: a user with identified sustainable packaging priorities, has assessment activities underway, and is seeking supporting information, including leading use cases. The interactive tool may provide value in addressing select sustainable packaging considerations.
How to use this guide
Review the Assessment Process
Select your Packaging Category Guide
Complete the Packaging Assessment using Resources & Tools
Packaging Guides
- Non-Plastic Aseptic
- Non-Plastic Non-Aseptic
- Rigid PET Containers
- Rigid Plastic
- Flexible Plastic
- Others
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