Paper or plastic : searching for solutions to an overpackaged world / Daniel Imhoff.

´A Watershed Media book.´

Incluye bibliografía.

Appendix A. Assessment of packaging practices -- Appendix B. Tips on green packaging -- Appendix C. Resources.

Natural systems design -- Celery Design Collaborative : the 80 percent solution -- Packaging tips from the porcupine fish (and other wild packagers) / Janine M. Benyus, Dayna Baumeister -- Wood reduction : packaging and the fate of the forests -- Third-party certification organizations and ecolabels -- The Forest Stewardship Council : certified wood and the well-managed working forest -- Alliances for Environmental Innovation : the ´greener´ boxboard project -- Summit Brewery : more palatable pallets -- The Chlorine-Free Products Association : processing without chlorine -- The rise of the mini-mill -- Durango-McKinley : leading-edge linerboard -- Regale : 21st-century egg carton -- The carbohydrate economy : on the trail of bioplastics -- Cargill Dow : the corntainer -- The global revival of local economies -- A future beyond the box -- Bad wraps -- Packaging that works -- What you can do -- Wraps at a glance -- Beyond-the-box packaging solutions --^

The packaging landscape -- The package is the product -- Wading upstream in the waste stream -- In packages we trust -- Does packaging waste equal more food? -- Intrinsic environmental consequences of trade-related transport / Jerry Mander, Simon Retallack -- Acceptable levels of waste -- Curbside confessionals -- Tracking a package´s footsteps -- In search of water from a deeper well -- A world of ´less bad´ solutions? -- Can packaging have a meaningful life? -- The search for solutions -- Major obstacles preventing packaging reform -- Key leverage points and trends toward packaging reform -- Extended producer responsibility and product take-back laws -- The expanding face of extended producer responsibility -- Finland´s Bottle Law : countrywide standardization -- Source reduction : packing more with less -- Hewlett-Packard : take away the package to lower the damage -- Aveda : optimizing post-consumer content and beyond -- Ben & Jerry´s : getting the white out --^