Transition to sustainable plastic packaging for consumer healthcare products
Categories: Low Carbon Sustainable Health Systems, Supply chains, Net zero health systems, Action Plans for sustainable low carbon health systems, Discussion paper, Global
Publisher: Global Self-Care Federation
This Position Paper from the Global Self Care Federation (GSCF) outlines the consumer healthcare industry's perspective on policies needed to enhance sustainable packaging for non-prescription medicines and food supplements. It highlights sustainability challenges in consumer healthcare packaging and suggests possible policy and regulatory solutions. The paper presents different types of regulatory, policy, and legislative changes and outlines key considerations for their development to reduce the environmental footprint of plastic packaging in the self-care products industry. It also highlights recommendations to help policymakers steer the industry towards more environmentally conscious packaging practices, taking into account practical constraints.
Intended users
- Policy-makers and stakeholders in policy development impacting the packaging and health care product manufacturing industries at global, national and sub-national levels.