Companies Urged to 'Think Outside the Box'

With above bazaar retailers advancing beneath analysis from a contempo Local Government Association survey(1) about their packaging, a new apparatus launched by sustainable business experts, Envirowise, looks set to advice companies abate the ecology appulse and costs of packaging.

Oxfordshire, England -- With above bazaar retailers advancing beneath analysis from a contempo Local Government Association survey(1) about their packaging, a new apparatus launched by acceptable business experts, Envirowise, looks set to advice companies abate the environmental appulse and costs of packaging.
Envirowise
The Envirowise packaging indicator apparatus for eco-design, piloted by Mars Chocolate, enables businesses to analyze the ecology contour of their own packaging designs to analyze area improvements can be made.

A contempo survey(2) conducted on account of the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) appear that 82 per cent of humans were anxious by the appulse of packaging, and Envirowise believes there has never been a bigger time for businesses to about-face to greener packaging to advance their ecology accreditation and cut costs.

Mars is fundamentally committed to sustainability and we bare an able apparatus with the appropriate akin of detail to use if because a new packaging architecture or re-design. This tool, advised by Envirowise, has accepted acutely advantageous in our artefact development process. However, there is consistently allowance for advance and, decidedly in today's bread-and-butter climate, businesses angle to account not alone in ecology agreement but aswell financially by analytic at how they can abate accidental packaging. Matt Boulter of the European Packaging Sustainability aggregation at Mars Chocolate says: "Mars is fundamentally committed to sustainability and we bare an able apparatus with the appropriate akin of detail to use if because a new packaging architecture or re-design. This tool, advised by Envirowise, has accepted acutely advantageous in our artefact development process."

Envirowise eco-design specialist, Jenni Rosser, comments: "Packaging has been challenged on ecology area for a amount of years and the industry has responded, not alone by putting cogent resources into recycling schemes, but aswell by continuing to abate the use of assets in packaging.

"However, there is consistently allowance for advance and, decidedly in today's bread-and-butter climate, businesses angle to account not alone in ecology agreement but aswell financially by analytic at how they can abate accidental packaging."

To advice companies get the a lot of out of the new tool, Envirowise has filmed a appropriate advisory podcast. Hosted on the Envirowise website, the podcast takes companies, step-by-step, through the process.

The new packaging apparatus can be accessed at wwww.envirowise.gov.uk/pack-in

For chargeless able admonition on ability ability from Envirowise, businesses can appointment www.envirowise.gov.uk oor alarm the Advice Line on 0800 585794.

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Notes to Editors
About Envirowise
Envirowise is a Government-funded programme committed to putting the acceptable use of assets at the affection of UK business practice.

Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UKst1:place> businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Envirowise offers businesses of all sizes and sectors a advanced ambit of free, absolute and applied admonition advised to absolutely advance their processes, advantage and competitiveness. Services include:

The Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794
An encyclopaedic website (envirowise.gov.uk) of admired and accordant advice
Over 200 contest anniversary year, from Product Design Workshops to above exhibitions

(1) Local Government Association Survey, February 2009
(2) Survey agitated out by Ipsos MORI on account of INCPEN, November 2008

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