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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024. 

Packaging Ecodesign for a Circular Economy

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Vol. 5 No. 9 (2020): November
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2020.58303

Abstract

Packaging fulfills important functions for the protection and handling of products, before reaching their recipients and during their use or consumption. Its post-consumer waste, however, negatively impacts the environment. For this reason, in Chile packaging is subject to the extended producer responsibility law, as the country advances towards a circular economy. The impacts of containers and packaging come, not only from their waste, but from their entire life cycle. This article is aimed at an audience of Design professionals and academics and has two objectives: to investigate the best ways to implement a circular economy in order to minimize packaging life cycle negative impacts, and to inquire about the roles that Design disciplines can play in the context of the extended producer responsibility law. Among the elements of the law, ecodesign emerges as a particularly relevant instrument to help avoiding negative impacts. Its scope of action, from the planning, design and development of products and packaging, is strategic for making environmentally responsible decisions and aid in preventing negative impacts. Design disciplines are often involved in the early stages of product and packaging development. This privileged position gives them the potential to be an instrumental part of solutions in packaging ecodesign for compliance with the law while minimizing environmental impacts.

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Ecodesign, environmental impact, packaging, product life cycle, thermodynamics.

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Huerta, O. (2020). Packaging Ecodesign for a Circular Economy. RChD: Creación Y Pensamiento, 5(9), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2020.58303
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