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THE ENERGY USED BY PACKAQIN6 AND ITS MINIMIZATION
Author(s) -
BUNT BY B. P.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
international journal of dairy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1471-0307
pISSN - 1364-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0307.1975.tb00378.x
Subject(s) - raw material , relation (database) , energy (signal processing) , process engineering , total energy , manufacturing engineering , minification , computer science , engineering , mathematics , database , psychology , chemistry , statistics , organic chemistry , displacement (psychology) , psychotherapist , programming language
The total energy concept is described and its relation to packaging discussed. The energy used in all stages of packaging manufacture from winning the basic raw materials to the delivery of the unfilled package is examined for all the major packaging materials. It is shown that the energy used in the actual manufacture of packages is small compared with the energy used to produce the raw materials from which the packages are made. The total energy usage of the UK packaging industry is discussed in relation to the usage of other industries and the total national usage. It is shown that the packaging industry is only a modest energy user. Methods of reducing this, including recycling, are considered.