To reduce the environmental impact of your packaging throughout its lifecycle, through innovation in the design of the product-packaging system.
2.6 Product-Packaging Innovation
Objective
Tracking the number of product-packaging systems that have been evaluated and optimised is required to progress. Optimisation must be reviewed regularly because changes in commercial arrangements, materials, and technologies may present new opportunities to improve packaging sustainability. Actions under this criteria may have been taken as a result of a Sustainable Packaging Guidelines (SPGs) review, or in response to another business driver (e.g. cost, marketing, new technology etc.).
Past examples of product-packaging innovation include the development of concentrated liquid products and flat-packed furniture that significantly reduces packaging requirements; and transformation of software sales from physical delivery (discs) to internet downloads.
Conditional: must satisfactorily meet the conditions of one question before progressing to the next.
- Packaging suppliers: The scope of this criteria is the packaging used to distribute your products.
- Global companies: This criteria applies to all products put on the market in Australia, regardless of where they were designed or manufactured. If design and procurement is undertaken outside Australia, and you already have an equivalent corporate procedure to promote product-packaging innovation for products sold in Australia, you do not need to introduce a new procedure.