Abstract
An extended producer responsibility legislation will operate in Chile, to help solve the problem of product post-consumer waste. Packaging is subject to the law, and waste management systems are being created to deal with post-consumer packaging waste. To enable products’ packaging for successful waste management in such systems, great changes will need to be made in new packaging solutions as opposed to existing ones. To help in this task, the course Packaging Ecodesign for EPR Compliance was created, for an audience of professionals in packaging companies. This article reports the design, implementation, and results of this course, focusing on final project results, for an audience of designers and non-designers involved in design processes. The course students succeeded in incorporating its core contents in applied systemic packaging design solutions for real products, which can comply with the extended producer responsibility through the upcoming waste management systems.
Keywords
ecodesign, packaging design, product life cycle, sustainability strategies, extended producer responsibility
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.241
Citation
Huerta, O., Cortés, C., and Melo, C. (2022) Integrating ecodesign in food packaging solutions for EPR compliance in Chile: Knowledge transfer from theory to practice, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.241
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Integrating ecodesign in food packaging solutions for EPR compliance in Chile: Knowledge transfer from theory to practice
An extended producer responsibility legislation will operate in Chile, to help solve the problem of product post-consumer waste. Packaging is subject to the law, and waste management systems are being created to deal with post-consumer packaging waste. To enable products’ packaging for successful waste management in such systems, great changes will need to be made in new packaging solutions as opposed to existing ones. To help in this task, the course Packaging Ecodesign for EPR Compliance was created, for an audience of professionals in packaging companies. This article reports the design, implementation, and results of this course, focusing on final project results, for an audience of designers and non-designers involved in design processes. The course students succeeded in incorporating its core contents in applied systemic packaging design solutions for real products, which can comply with the extended producer responsibility through the upcoming waste management systems.