Defining product stewardship and sustainability in the Australian packaging industry

Lewis, Helen

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2004.09.002

Cited by 42 publications

(31 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Quality of raw materials is an important 'shared responsibility' for SC members, particularly given its total lifecycle impact potential (Lewis 2005). Poor raw material quality can lead to alternative sourcing by downstream actors (Ilbery & Maye 2005 p.338) and, hence, can seriously undermine business sustainability.…”

Section: Product Quality Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining sustainability performance in the supply chain: The case of the Greek dairy sector

Bourlakis

Maglaras

Gallear

et al. 2014

Industrial Marketing Management

107

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Product Quality Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining sustainability performance in the supply chain: The case of the Greek dairy sector

Bourlakis

Maglaras

Gallear

et al. 2014

Industrial Marketing Management

107

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Stewardship Property and Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Helen Lewis (2005) describes it as a contested but wide ranging discourse that includes extended producer responsibility. She traces the first use of the term 'stewardship' in an environmental management context to the Canadian Chemical Producers Association's (CCPA) Responsible Care Code developed in the late 1970s/mid-1980s (Lewis, 2005). Since the 1990s product stewardship has become increasingly prominent within discourses around material responsibility (Hart, 1995(Hart, , 1997Michaelis, 1995) including in principles espoused by corporations such as Xerox (Maslennikova and Foley, 2000) and Hewlett-Packard (Preston, 2001).…”

Section: Stewardship Property and Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Product stewardship for packaging (Table 1.) is governed by a 'coregulatory' arrangement, which combines voluntary industry-government agreements (through the Australian Packaging Covenant) with regulations that impose EPR obligations on industry 'free-riders' (Lewis, 2005). Not surprisingly, companies have chosen self-regulation through the Covenant to avoid individual EPR obligations.…”

Section: Product Stewardship In Australia and The Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Key areas of contestation of these mainstream implementations of EPR and product stewardship are around the extent to which the primary responsibility lies with producers or should be shared among all actors involved in the supply chain including government and consumers and the extent to which these responsibilities should be enshrined in legislation or rely on voluntary agreements (Lewis 2005). Attempts to engage producers in assuming responsibility for the environmental impacts of products throughout their lifecycle should ultimately result in a feedback loop whereby products are designed for re-manufacturing or recycling (Deutz et al 2010).…”

Section: Product Stewardship In Australia and The Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

Lane

Watson

2012

Geoforum

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:In the context of broad-based concerns about the need to move towards a more sustainable materials economy, particularly as they are expressed in debates around ecological modernisation (EM), we argue that product stewardship has radical potential as a means to promote significant change in the relationship between society and the material world. We focus on two important dimensions that have been neglected in approaches to product stewardship to date. Firstly, we argue that immanent within the basic concept of stewardship is a problematisation of dominant understandings of property ownership in neoliberal market economies. In the space opened up by notions of stewardship, different ways of enacting both rights and responsibilities to products and materials emerge which have potential to advance the sustainability of material economies. Secondly, through exploration of existing expressions of product stewardship, we uncover a neglected scale of action. Both policy and dominant articulations of EM focus primarily on the efficiency of production processes; and secondarily, the attitudes and behaviours of individual consumers. Missing from this is the 'meso-scale' of social collectives including households, neighbourhoods, more distributed communities and small scale social enterprises. Based on a review of existing research from Australia and the UK, including our own, we argue that understanding of embedded practices of material responsibility at the household scale can both reinvigorate the concept of product stewardship as a potentially radical intervention, and reveal the potential of the meso-scale as a challenging but worthwhile realm of policy intervention.Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials Lane and Watson 2

show abstract

Elucidating the Indirect Contributions of Packaging to Sustainable Development: A Terminology of Packaging Functions and Features

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Packaging has great potential to contribute to sustainable development through its functions. Previous research has indicated a need for increased knowledge among consumers, suppliers, authorities and media of how packaging functions and features influence sustainable development. Previous research also shows the need for a common terminology of packaging functions and features in order to facilitate and improve communication and understanding in development and decision processes.This conceptual paper sets out to identify, collect, analyse and systemize packaging functions and features and evaluate them based on their indirect contributions to sustainable development. The systemized functions and features are expressed in generic terminology. Three clusters of packaging functions were identified from the literature: protect, facilitate handling and communicate. Nineteen packaging features were also identified. They were grouped under the three functions and elaborated based on their indirect contributions to the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. Fourteen potential positive indirect effects were identified including decreased product waste, reduced risk for human health hazards, increased handling and transport efficiency. Decreased product waste was generated by 13 of the features and was thus the most frequently appearing. Reducing waste is thereby indicated to be a manifold matter, but also one of great potential.The proposed terminology can contribute to an increased understanding of how packaging can actually contribute to sustainable development. In a theoretical context, this paper attempts to complement earlier work in sustainable packaging development by its emphasis on the indirect contributions of packaging to sustainable development.

show abstract

Defining product stewardship and sustainability in the Australian packaging industry

Cited by 42 publications

References 1 publication

Examining sustainability performance in the supply chain: The case of the Greek dairy sector

Examining sustainability performance in the supply chain: The case of the Greek dairy sector

Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

Elucidating the Indirect Contributions of Packaging to Sustainable Development: A Terminology of Packaging Functions and Features

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About