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dc.contributor.author | Gerassimidou, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Martin, O | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chapman, SP | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hahladakis, JN | - |
dc.contributor.author | Iacovidou, E | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-07T03:30:28Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-07T03:30:28Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020-12-03 | - |
dc.identifier | ORCID iDs: Syridoula Gerassimidou https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3529-5761; Olwenn V. Martin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2724-7882; Stephen P. Chapman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6982-4591; Eleni Iacovidou https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6841-0995. | - |
dc.identifier | 125378 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Gerassimidou, S. et al. (2020) 'Development of an integrated sustainability matrix to depict challenges and trade-offs of introducing bio-based plastics in the food packaging value chain', Journal of Cleaner Production, 286, 125378, pp. 1 - 16. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125378. | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0959-6526 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21963 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Copyright 2020 The Author(s). As global plastic pollution is gaining increased attention, the use of bio-based plastics, especially in the food packaging sector, is growing in popularity. While this move is regarded as a solution to plastic pollution, it may shift or create detrimental impacts elsewhere in the production, consumption, management system, a possibility that is underexplored. The aim of the present study is to identify the potential challenges and trade-offs associated with the introduction of bio-based plastics in the food packaging industry, and highlight issues relevant to policy and decision-making processes. We employ a whole system approach to review the literature and assess holistically the performance of bio-based plastics, which looks at the entire lifecycle of bio-based plastic packaging (i.e. production, consumption, management) and considers wider aspects in the environmental, economic, social and technical sustainability domains. Based on our findings, we developed, and present herein, a sustainability decision matrix, a novel guiding tool, which can provide important insights into the potential impacts of the introduction of larger amount of bio-based plastic food packaging in the future and support decision-making processes. In conclusion, our preliminary high-level assessment of the bio-based plastics production, use and management system clearly reveals a number of blind-spots across the entire system that are currently ignored by the use of single-dimensional approaches. This highlights that the sustainability assessment of specific bio-based polymers requires thorough and further research that takes into account the type of feedstock, infrastructure availability, and interactions between sustainability domains, to ensure that the substitution of petrochemical-based plastics with bio-based alternatives in food packaging sector will not lead to unintended consequences. | - |
dc.format.extent | 1 - 16 | - |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | - |
dc.language | English | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | Crown Copyright © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | - |
dc.subject | plastics | en_US |
dc.subject | bioplastics | en_US |
dc.subject | life cycle | en_US |
dc.subject | sustainability | en_US |
dc.subject | holistic view | en_US |
dc.subject | plastic waste management | en_US |
dc.title | Development of an integrated sustainability matrix to depict challenges and trade-offs of introducing bio-based plastics in the food packaging value chain | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125378 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Journal of Cleaner Production | - |
pubs.publication-status | Pubished | - |
pubs.volume | 286 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1879-1786 | - |
dc.rights.holder | Crown / The Author(s) | - |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Design School Research Papers |
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