【正文】 hot topics among these activists has been the use of toxic bisphenol A (BPA) in polycarbonate plastics. Recently, however, the European Food Safety Authority concluded that there is little risk to humans from BPA in consumer products at current levels. EFSA said the expert panel tasked to evaluate the safety of the mon plastic additive found that the human body rapidly metabolizes and eliminates BPA, and therefore it presents no risk to infants, children, or adults. The conclusions from those studies and prehensive safety evaluations by government bodies worldwide are that polycarbonate bottles are safe for consumer use, states the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA). Flexible vs. rigid RESEARCH findings on the relationship between flexible packaging and sustainability by Franklin Associates, an independent third party research firm, demonstrates the smaller environmental footprint of flexible resealable packaging as pared to rigid alternatives, according to ZipPak. The life cycle inventory (LCI) included eight packaging systems (flexible packaging formats with resealable closures as well as rigid packaging formats) consisting of six deli meat packages and two breakfast cereal packages. Key findings of the LCI include that products packaged in flexible pouches with resealable closures had lower energy consumption, solid waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions than the rigid systems included in the analysis. Further, although transportation energy accounted for less than 17% of total energy for all systems, the results show that transportation energy requirements for the reusable rigid containers are higher than those for the flexible packaging systems. IBWA says in its website that 100% of bottled water containers are recyclable, where facilities exist ?that caveat is important because very few countries have legislated recycling and have the facilities to process plastic packaging. Containers for bottled water, made from PET plastic, which are being increasingly lighter in weight, accounted for less than onethird of one percent of all waste produced in the United States [the world39。事實(shí)上 ,最近的一次世界包裝組織會(huì)員等級(jí)保健意識(shí) Pira 調(diào)查作為最重要的啟動(dòng)程序中在發(fā)展包裝行業(yè) 65%會(huì)員的評(píng)級(jí)這個(gè)因素為“十分重要”。它曾是廠家都稱(chēng)為擊球 ,但是這些時(shí)候 ,連鎖超市正在利用自己的力量來(lái)影響食品供應(yīng)鏈的上架。新的“ HexaLite”終止于靜水和飲料蓋重 量輕于 克塑料樹(shù)脂 (HDPE)在新的輕頸部的 PET 瓶完成的。他們被作為可持續(xù)發(fā)展選擇替代傳統(tǒng)的塑料 ,因?yàn)樗麄兛筛徒到?,盡管不是所有生物塑料可能符合工業(yè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn) ASTM D6400在美國(guó)和歐洲的 EN13432可塑料為可生物降解 / 可腐。 一件語(yǔ)義 一種可降解和生物 ,常被錯(cuò)誤地交換了? 一種塑料 是，由 ASTM 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)” ,能夠接受生物分解在 堆肥網(wǎng)站一部分作為一個(gè)可用的程序 , 塑料不是這樣的視覺(jué)識(shí)別和分解二氧化碳、水、無(wú)機(jī)化合物、生物量、速度可與已知材料 (例如纖維素 ),沒(méi)有留下毒副作用。 塑料容器受到攻擊 環(huán)境的十字軍常詆毀傳統(tǒng) ,以石油為原料的塑料。而且 ,雖然交通能源占 ,所有的系統(tǒng)不到 17%的總能量 ,結(jié)果表明 ,交通能源需求的可重用的剛性容器均高于對(duì)軟包裝系統(tǒng)