Print Email Facebook Twitter Thinking-about-the-Box; A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Design Engineering of Packaging for Durable Consumer Goods Title Thinking-about-the-Box; A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Design Engineering of Packaging for Durable Consumer Goods Author Wever, R. Contributor Stevels, A.L.N. (promotor) Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2009-10-05 Abstract So far, the sustainability focus on packaging has been strongly on resource conservation and material recycling. However, as this thesis demonstrates based on LCA studies, for typical cases of packed consumer durables, the transportation of the packed product has a higher environmental impact than the packaging material used. Analysis of a substantial set of packed consumer durables demonstrates that transportation efficiency is determined by packaging based on volume. Hence, a designfor- volume-optimization approach is proposed. The packaging development process is studied, identifying a need to integrate packaging design and packaging engineering. Three types of packaging functionalities are identified, namely distribution-related, sales-related and experience-related. Each type of functionalities has its own relationship to packaging volume. An approach to analyze the required mix of functionalities for a specific package is proposed. For each type of functionalities different volume optimization strategies are presented. Subject packaging designvolume optimizationpackaging volumeenvironmental impactEcoDesign To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:86d02ef6-d86b-4a9a-bcbb-beb08b3197e2 Publisher VSSD Embargo date 2009-10-05 ISBN 9789065622303 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2009 Wever, R. Files PDF wever_thinking_about_the_ ... ersion.pdf 14.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:86d02ef6-d86b-4a9a-bcbb-beb08b3197e2/datastream/OBJ/view