Environmentally Benign Packaging with Innovative Adhesives

Publisher: Henkel

Format: PDF
Date: 2008-11-18

Overview:
The role of modern packaging adhesives in manufacturing of packaging and distributing products is covered in this white paper. The estimated packaging production globally, and its role in terms of marketing goods, technical solutions, environmental protection, and consumers demand are discussed in detailed. As adhesives play a major role in the production of nearly all goods and especially in the production of packaging, the question of how adhesive applications influence the idea of a closed-loop economy is explained. The different ways of saving natural resources in the field of packaging are described with examples, and the possibilities in minimizing the usage of material needed for the production of a product are demonstrated. The emphasis on resource saving and the early inclusion of reuse and recycling of material and chemical in the twenty-first century is also summarized.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.	Introduction	1
2.	Too Much Packaging?	2
3.	Optimization of Packaging - Sustainable Development	3
4.	Sustainable Development - Closed-Loop Economy	3
5.	Adhesives In Bonding and Finishing of Packaging	3
6.	Waste Hierarchy	4
7.	Avoiding of Material	4
7.1.	Packaging-free Pressure Sensitive Hot Melt Adhesives	4
7.2.	Renunciation of Folding Boxes in Toothpaste Packaging	5
7.3.	Substitution of Stretch- and Shrink-wrap by Pallet Stabilizing Adhesives	5
7.4.	Folding-box packaging without interior pouches	5
8.	Reduction of the Consumption of Resources (Materials and Energy)	6
8.1.	Packaging Laminates - Flexible Packaging	6
8.2.	Polyethylenetherephthalate (PET) Bottles	8
9.	Reuse Of Packaging	9
10.	Recycling of Materials	9
10.1.	Material Recycling	9
10.2.	Chemical Recycling	10
11.	Composting of Packaging	11
12.	Incineration (Energy Recycling)	11
13.	Landfill of Packaging	11
14.	Summary	11
15.	References	13
16.	Figures	14
16.1.	Fig. 1 World Population Growth	14
16.2.	Fig. 2 Hot Melt in Siliconized Packaging Material	15
16.3.	Fig. 3 Plastic Film Packed Hot Melt	16
16.4.	Fig. 4 Toothpaste Dispenser	17
16.5.	Fig. 5 Palletizing Adhesives	18
16.6.	Fig. 6 Folding Box Without Interior Pouch	19
16.7.	Fig. 7 Radiation Curing Mechanisms	20
16.8.	Fig. 8 Segment Application of Hot Melt	21
16.9.	Fig. 9 Returnable Plastic Bottles	22
16.10.	Fig. 10 Packaging Recycling in Germany	23
16.11.	Fig. 11 Paper Recycling Rate in Western Europe	24
16.12.	Fig. 12 Adhesives Market in Western Europe	25