{"id":3935,"date":"2022-05-24T10:47:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/environmental-impact-study-single-use-vs-reusable\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:37:27","slug":"environmental-impact-study-single-use-vs-reusable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/environmental-impact-study-single-use-vs-reusable\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Impact Study: Single Use Vs. Reusable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Lifecycle Analysis (LCA study), commissioned by the European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA), and conducted by the renowned engineering and environmental consultancy, Ramboll has been\u00a0published.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Contrary to simplistic product-only LCAs, Ramboll took a systems-based approach to assess the differences in environmental impact between paper-based single-use packaging and multi-use systems for in-store use in quick service restaurants in Europe. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>This approach fully incorporates the use (washing and drying) phase of multi-use. The Ramboll study also used primary data, which included analysis of the environmental hotspots of paper production and conversion in the single-use system. Previous studies mainly relied on secondary data (in particular concerning the paper upstream value chain). This has delivered a very comprehensive study which has also been independently certified to ISO standards.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of Ramboll\u2019s main findings were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For <strong>Climate Change<\/strong>, the single-use system shows very significant benefits for <strong>reducing CO2-e emissions<\/strong>. In fact, in the baseline scenario, the polypropylene-based multi-use system was responsible for generating <strong>7 times more<\/strong><strong>CO2-e emissions<\/strong> than the paper-based single-use system. The single main contributor to climate change impact in the multi-use baseline scenario is the electricity demand of the washing process. Overall, the <strong>use phase accounts for 83% of the total aggregated impact.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For <strong>Freshwater Consumption<\/strong>, there are also very significant environmental benefits for the single-use system. <strong>The multi-use system<\/strong> <strong>used 3.4 times<\/strong> the amount of freshwater in the baseline scenario.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eppa-eu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LCA-In-Store-Sudy-Ramboll.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VIEW FULL REPORT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nSByTBNv_Co\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lifecycle Analysis (LCA study), commissioned by the European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA), and conducted by the renowned engineering and environmental consultancy, Ramboll has been\u00a0published. Contrary to simplistic product-only LCAs, Ramboll took a systems-based approach to assess the differences in environmental impact between paper-based single-use packaging and multi-use systems for in-store use in quick service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"blog-categories-main":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"blog-categories-main","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupprint.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-categories-main?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}