Environmental assessment of packaging: The consumer point of view |
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Authors: | Ynte K Van Dam |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Marketing and Marketing Research, Agricultural University Wageningen, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | When marketing environmentally responsible packaged products, the producer is confronted with consumer beliefs concerning the environmental friendliness of packaging materials. When making environmentally conscious packaging decisions, these consumer beliefs should be taken into account alongside the technical guidelines. Dutch consumer perceptions of the environmental friendliness of packaged products are reported and compared with the results of a life-cycle analysis assessment. It is shown that consumers judge environmental friendliness mainly from material and returnability. Furthermore, the consumer perception of the environmental friendliness of packaging material is based on the postconsumption waste, whereas the environmental effects of production are ignored. From the consumer beliefs concerning environmental friendliness implications are deduced for packaging policy and for environmental policy. |
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Keywords: | Consumer behavior Environment Food Packaging Perception Waste |
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