Plastic leakage of packaging in Life Cycle Assessment – a theoretical framework

The proposed theoretical framework explores how packaging could be assessed from gate-to-grave including the probability to become litter. A growing number of studies have confirmed omnipresence plastic pollution. Likewise, it has been revealed that marine litter is mainly caused by poor or insufficient waste management. In this line, environmental impact gained much attention due significant increase in public awareness. Packaging often designed for single-use and rapidly transforms into after a short life-time. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) practitioners who assess will need determine percentage material becomes Currently available end-of-life scenarios model fate are: recycling, incineration disposal landfill. With estimation potential littering as an scenario, life cycle inventory flows pollution can determined. like adopted LCA decision-makers, enable fairer more realistic comparisons packaging, help prioritize regulatory action well choices within companies.