Single Use supermarket food packaging and its alternatives publication: Recommendations from LCA

UNEP’s report on “Single-use supermarket food packaging and its alternatives: Recommendations from life cycle assessments” is now available online.

The report draws recommendations for policy makers and LCA practitioners on what supermarket food packaging solutions have the least environmental footprint. This report is the last of a series of meta-analyses of LCA studies on 9 single-use plastic products and their alternatives, in response to Resolution 9 of the fourth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA4), on “Addressing Single-use plastic pollution”.

Access all ‘Single-use plastic product (SUPP) publications’ on the Life Cycle Initiative website.