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Better by Design

Replicating promising practices, tools and methodologies to enable companies in Peru, Nicaragua and the Honduras to improve sustainability of their food and beverage products

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As much as 80 % of a product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage. That is why this project developed tools that companies can use to embed sustainable, low carbon thinking into their product development, distribution, and promotion initiatives.

The project collaborated with several companies in Peru, Nicaragua, and Honduras to improve product and packaging design. For example, a company in Peru used the project’s ‘Better by Design’ tools to develop new environmentally friendly packaging for its granola bars. Likewise, the project helped a company in Central America investigate using sustainable packaging for its range of cleaning products.  

In addition to these corporate-level initiatives, the project introduced effective means for communicating a product’s sustainability information. It also helped the Peruvian government issued a law limiting single-use plastics – effectively requiring companies to adopt sustainable product design. 

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WRAP

WRAP was established as a not-for-profit company in 2000; and became a charity in 2014. WRAP promotes and encourages sustainable resource use through product design, waste minimisation, re-use, recycling and reprocessing of waste materials.

WRAP works across six continents with governments, businesses and citizens to create a world where resources are sourced and used sustainably.

 

World Resources Forum (WRF)

WRF is an independent non-profit international organization that serves as a platform connecting and fostering knowledge exchange on resources management amongst business leaders, policy-makers, NGOs, scientists and the public. WRF aims to make their vision of sustainable use of resources worldwide a reality through organization of high-level international conferences. In addition WRF engages in research and development cooperation projects.

 

 

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