Environmental innovation in industrial packaging: a supply chain approach

By K. Verghese, H. Lewis. 2007

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Community concerns about the environmental impacts of packaging have prompted governments to introduce policies and regulations which impose eco-taxes or deposit-return systems, require companies to take-back and recover their packaging, or promote voluntary product stewardship programmes. Until recently these programmes have focused almost exclusively on consumer (retail) packaging, but increasingly companies are starting to address the environmental impacts of industrial packaging. This is being driven as much by regulation as it is by the need to reduce costs and increase efficiency in supply chains. This paper argues that environmental innovation in industrial packaging systems requires a cooperative supply chain approach to ensure that environmental and commercial costs are reduced and efficiencies optimized for the chain as a whole. This is based on a review of the literature and an industrial packaging supply chain research and demonstration programme conducted between 2003 and 2005 in Australia.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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A green supplier selection model for high-tech industry (2009, background): “The integration of environment, economic and social performances to achieve sustainable development is a major business challenge for the new century (Verghese & Lewis, 2007).”
A supply chain sustainability innovation framework and evaluation methodology (2018, background): “…Li and Mathiyazhagan 2018; Mathivathanan, Kannan, and Haq 2018) and have emphasised the importance of sustainable innovation in SSCM (Hall 2001; Verghese and Lewis 2007; Isaksson, Johansson, and Fischer 2010; Boons et al. 2013; Zailani et al. 2015; Costantini et al. 2017; Gao et al. 2017;…”
Success factors for environmentally sustainable product innovation: a systematic literature review (2014, background): “…research contributions regarding development of green innovation products (Geffen and Rothenberg, 2000; Zhu et al., 2005; Zhu and Sarkis, 2007; Verghese and Lewis, 2007; Ras and Vermeulen, 2009) and proposal of reference models capable of identifying and aggregating competences for…”
From a systematic literature review to integrated definition for sustainable supply chain innovation (SSCI) (2017, unknown): “To reduce the potential environmental impact of a product, environmental innovation can be used in product design; for example, the reduction of industrial packaging reduces the supply chain cost and the environmental impacts, making the product more sustainable (Verghese and Lewis, 2007).”
Managing Imbalanced Supply Chain Relationships for Sustainability: A Power Perspective (2014, background): “…collaboration has been advocated as the best way to manage SC relationships for sustainability (e.g., Alvarez, Pilbeam, & Wilding, 2010; Vachon & Klassen, (2008), Verghese & Lewis, 2007), it is interesting to note that most of SSCM literature tends to focus on the actions of large corporations.”