SP Publishes Design for Recycling Guidance for Automotive Expendable Packaging
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
The guidance document is designed to provide straightforward industry-supported guidance to help automakers and their suppliers identify opportunities to design and source sustainable packaging designs for use in expendable packaging applications.
Key Points:
- The guidance document is designed to provide straightforward industry-supported guidance to help automakers and their suppliers identify opportunities to design and source sustainable packaging designs for use in expendable packaging applications.
- Expendable packaging may also be used for international shipping and as backup for returnable packaging in automotive operations, when needed.
- The SP Sustainable Packaging Work Group recommends that the sustainable packaging strategies outlined in the guidance document be reviewed within automotive companies' packaging design and sourcing considerations, where appropriate, and distributed widely across the automotive supply chain as best practice guidance.
- "The SP Sustainable Packaging Work Group's mission is to provide a platform for companies from across the automotive packaging value chain to collaborate to minimize automotive packaging waste and seek to address barriers to packaging recyclability and/or reuse, and this new guidance is a solid example of the outputs of those collaborative discussions.