How can we minimize packaging waste through renewable packaging?

Whether we like it or not, packaging products to prevent damage, spoilage, or contamination is necessary. However, unfortunately for the planet, many packaging materials can have significant environmental impacts, especially plastic waste. Packaging affects our oceans, air, and land. It’s a fundamental problem that can’t be solved overnight and can’t be ignored. Excessive packaging waste poses a significant threat to our environment. Companies and consumers need to take action to help reduce and control this packaging waste. At Pivazh, our goal is to minimize these environmental impacts through customer education on sustainable environmental practices and renewable packaging solutions.

What Harms the Planet?: Defining Environmental Impacts

But before we can deepen our commitment to environmentally friendly packaging, it’s essential to understand the precise meaning of environmental impacts in packaging. By environmental impacts, we mean excessive packaging of products and the greenhouse gas emissions they generate during production and disposal. All packaging types have environmental impacts on the planet, but we must reduce these impacts to have a healthier world.

Plastic waste, in particular, is one of the largest factors contributing to the negative impact of packaging on the environment. However, all types of packaging still contribute to an important problem that needs to be addressed quickly. It all starts from the beginning of a packaging’s lifecycle, continues throughout its journey, and leaves a negative environmental footprint at each stage. Reducing and controlling packaging waste at each stage is crucial for improving the final outcome. Therefore, to better understand how renewable packaging can have an impact on the environment, let’s look at three main stages of the packaging lifecycle.

Sourcing and Production in the Non-Renewable Packaging Cycle

The problem with most harmful packaging starts right from its production. All types of packaging require a certain amount of resources and energy to produce. Production likely releases harmful greenhouse gases into the air, produces hazardous metal particles, or dumps toxic waste into the oceans. Even factors like water use, chemicals, oil, or wood harvesting contribute to the environmental impacts of production. While renewable packaging significantly reduces the amount of this waste.

Transportation of Packaging

However, it’s not just the production of packaging waste that harms the environment. The transportation of packaging also affects the environment. Air pollution from airplanes, ships, and trucks also damages the planet! Fuel is needed to transport packaging from one point to another. And while we will always need transportation, there are ways to reduce this unavoidable impact.

Disposal of Packaging Waste

The final major factor that impacts the environment due to packaging is its end-of-life cycle, namely disposal. Any type of renewable or non-renewable packaging can pollute the environment, but plastics, especially when not used properly, are harmful. Plastics often litter our oceans and streets, causing serious harm to birds and marine life. In 2016 alone, about 23 million tons of plastic waste entered the oceans, where fish and birds often get entangled in or mistakenly ingest such waste. Therefore, steps and initiatives must be taken to minimize the problem of plastic waste and, more generally, the harmful environmental footprint of packaging.

Our Products: A Solution for Reducing Plastic and Providing Renewable Packaging

With advancements in technology and innovation in modern, sustainable packaging, businesses and consumers can take appropriate actions to reduce the environmental impacts of excessive packaging and move towards zero waste and renewable packaging. At Pivazh, our mission is to provide solutions needed to reduce and control packaging waste through environmentally friendly packaging:

Raw Material Quality – We use certified and renewable raw materials to ensure that all materials used in projects are safe and optimal.

Waste Recovery – We focus on aspects such as recycling, reusing, and composting all packaging-related waste.

Benefits of Reducing Environmental Impacts

The earth is our home, and it reacts to everything we do. Change doesn’t happen overnight. Companies and consumers need to work together and maintain sustainable practices to reduce our environmental footprint, and Pivazh is an excellent place to start! If you want to upgrade your business and take the next steps towards renewable packaging for your products, please contact us. Our experts are eager to answer any questions you may have!