Executive Summary
1.1 Global Overview of Packaged Water consumption
1.2 The Environment and the Environmental Impact of Packaged Water
1.2.1 The Environment
1.2.2 Environmental Impact of Packaged Water
1.3 Economic Pressures
1.3.1 Price of oil
1.3.2 Packaging Costs
1.3.3 Food and Beverage Prices
2.1 Key External Drivers for Sustainability
2.1.1 Consumer Concerns over Ethical, Environmental, Health & Safety Issues
2.1.2 Growing International Environmental Lobby
2.1.3 Regulatory
2.2 Industry partnerships – pressure throughout the supply chain
2.2.1 Role of The Retailer
2.2.2 Environmentally and Socially Responsible Suppliers
2.2.3 Sustainable sourcing of materials
2.2.4 Life-Cycle Thinking & Life Cycle Assessment
2.2.5 Carbon Footprinting
2.2.6 Methods for improving the sustainability of a package
2.3 Enabling technologies for reduced environmental impact
2.3.1 Source reduction
2.3.2 Water Conservation
2.3.3. Low Carbon Technology and Renewable Energy
2.3.4 Reduced Emissions from Transportation
2.3.5 Waste Management Strategies
- 3 Competitive Framework of Packaging Media
3.1 Market trends by pack material and pack size
3.2 PET bottles
3.2.1 Light-weighting
3.2.2 Recycling
3.2.3 Innovations
3.3 Glass bottles
3.3.1 Light-weighting
3.3.2 Re-use
3.3.3 Recycling
3.3.4 Innovations
3.4 Aluminium cans
3.4.1 Source reduction
3.4.2 Recycling
3.4.3 Innovations:
3.5 Beverage Cartons
3.5.1 Source reduction
3.5.2 Recycling
3.5.3 Innovations
3.6 Bio-plastics: PLA – A Panacea for Packaging?
4.1 Climate Change and its Impact on Fresh Water Availability
4.2 Groundwater
4.3 The Developing Global Water Crisis
4.4 Corporate Social Responsibility
4.5 Sustainability
4.6 Trends in Cereal Prices