Sustainable Packaging Design Software: Envirowise

June 25, 2009

As quoted from the Envirowise website for PACK-IN:

“Measuring the overall environmental impact of a packaging system can be difficult and time consuming. This web-based tool simplifies this task by allowing you to assess packaging and also compare different packaging options using a small number of pre-defined environmental parameters.

The tool builds an environmental profile of your packaging system using the following information:

  • Types and amounts of materials you are using (or intending to use) in your packaging
  • Information on where the materials come from and how they are transported to your facility
  • Data on volume of product and packaging

The tool then presents the results in both graphical and tabular formats based on six parameters: recycled content, recyclability, product/pack ratio, volumetric efficiency, embodied carbon and transport.”

I haven’t used it personally, but if you do know someone in the packaging space, do let them know about it icon smile Sustainable Packaging Design Software: Envirowise
There is an increasing number of free and premium SAAS (software as a service) tools for eco-design available. I hope to cover more of them in future posts.

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