Incorporating Consumer Insights into the UK Food Packaging Supply Chain in the Transition to a Circular Economy
Incorporating Consumer Insights into the UK Food Packaging Supply Chain in the Transition to a Circular Economy
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将消费者洞察纳入英国食品包装供应链，向循环经济转型
DOI：
10.3390/su12156106
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Garrath T. Wilson
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作者：
N. Clark;Rhoda Trimingham;Garrath T. Wilson
外出购买午餐的增长导致了对预包装食品的需求增加。一次性塑料包装因其食品安全和方便属性而经常被选择;然而，由于对经济浪费和环境影响的担忧，材料形式正在接受审查。循环经济可以将线性制造-使用-处置供应链转变为循环系统，确保宝贵的塑料资源的循环利用。然而，关于消费者在循环经济系统中的行为方式的研究有限。了解消费者的行为与包装处理的家庭可以帮助设计师在开发解决方案，社会将采用过渡到循环经济。本研究评估了行为研究方法的应用，以及行为洞察力的输出，与利益相关者从英国食品包装供应链。一个新的共同设计研讨会和业务折纸技术允许多个利益相关者团体合作讨论，评估和计划如何消费者行为技术可以在他们的供应链包装开发过程中使用。虽然所有利益相关者都确定了将行为研究纳入开发过程的优势，提供了必要的知识反馈回路，但其应用的障碍包括实施的成本和时间，以及现有的不一致的英国废物基础设施。
The growth of eating lunch purchased out of the home has led to an increased need for pre-packaged food-to-go products. Single-use plastic packaging is frequently chosen for its food safety and convenience attributes; however, the material format is under scrutiny due to concerns over economic waste and environmental impact. A circular economy could transform linear make-use-dispose supply chains into circular systems, ensuring the cycling of valuable plastic resources. However, there has been limited research into how consumers will behave within circular economic systems. Understanding consumer behaviour with packaging disposed out of the home could aid designers in developing solutions society will adopt in the transition to a circular economy. This study evaluates the application of behaviour research methods, and the behavioural insight outputs, with stakeholders from the UK food-to-go packaging supply chain. A novel co-design workshop and business origami technique allowed multiple stakeholder groups to collaboratively discuss, evaluate, and plan how consumer behaviour techniques could be used within their supply chain packaging development process. Although all stakeholders identified strengths in incorporating behaviour studies into the development process, providing essential knowledge feedback loops, barriers to their application include the cost and time to implement, plus the existing inconsistent UK waste infrastructure.