Sustainability trends impacting the pharmaceutical packaging industry
Pharma
May 19, 2022Reading time: 1 minutes
The pharmaceutical industry, healthcare providers and patients are all increasingly aware of the need for more sustainable packaging. This means a growing demand for more sustainable solutions while ensuring the quality and safety requirements that are fundamental when designing pharmaceutical packaging.
The pharmaceutical industry, healthcare providers and patients are all increasingly aware of the need for more sustainable packaging. This means a growing demand for more sustainable solutions while ensuring the quality and safety requirements that are fundamental when designing pharmaceutical packaging.
Critical processes in the pharma industry that contribute to carbon footprint are the production of pharmaceutical products, production of pharmaceutical packaging, supply chain, and end-of-life disposal.
Although the packaging is only a share of the overall impact, packaging suppliers can support the pharmaceutical industry’s goals by considering environmental impact when designing packaging. Comparing different materials and designs through a Life Cycle Assessment system allows suppliers to make informed decisions on what materials and package formats to use.
Amcor’s Sustainability Stewardship Evaluation Tool (ASSET™) is a proprietary tool for Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) that measures the environmental impact from raw materials to end-of-use, offering a simple and effective way to compare two packages.
Amcor’s commitment to sustainability
As the first global packaging company to pledge to develop all our packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025, Amcor continues to innovate across the markets we serve to replace non-recyclable materials with recycle-ready alternatives. We have developed Amcor HealthCare™ AmSky™ Blister System, the first recycle-ready polyethylene-based thermoform blister packaging. The new packaging is designed to meet the stringent requirements of highly specialized and regulated pharma packaging and creates a more sustainable alternative for the industry. This innovation can provide a reduction in its carbon footprint when compared to other packaging alternatives on the market today.
