SPHERE:包装可持续性框架

The environmental impact of packaging is increasingly a priority for companies and consumers, 谁在寻找减少环境足迹的方法. Together with 12 companies including several WBCSD members and the support of an advisory group, 我们已承诺处理包装废物管理不善的问题. 

然而, how do you ensure that trying to solve one issue will not create another problem somewhere else? 驾驭无数的影响评估指标并不是一件容易的事. Businesses currently face challenges in combining sustainability and 循环 considerations in environmental assessments, as well as evaluating the trade-offs related to packaging and delivery systems alternatives. 解决现有方法的这些局限性, we are proposing a way to complete a holistic environmental assessment of packaging: SPHERE，包装可持续性框架.  

Conceptualized as a framework to support decision-making for packaging strategies spanning company departments, SPHERE在复杂性和简单性之间取得了平衡. The framework collects all the aspects required to evaluate packaging from an environmental sustainability perspective and distils an approach that facilitates a holistic assessment.  

该框架是基于六个原则，包括包装效率循环, 对气候变化和生物多样性丧失的影响, 没有有害物质和废物管理不善, And有两种用法:  

• a portfolio assessment to identify potential hotspots across a range of packaging from a company-level perspective,  
• an eco-design approach to evaluate different packaging options for a specific product. 

SPHERE允许公司确定行动的优先级并监控其绩效. 通过推动影响和拥有他们的正规博彩十大网站排名之旅, they will inspire others all over the world to minimize their packaging’s contribution to climate change and nature loss. 

We invite companies of all sizes and industries worldwide to demonstrate their leadership in the packaging sustainability space by using SPHERE to assess their impact and make meaningful steps towards a better world.

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常见问题

1. 什么是SPHERE?

SPHERE是包装环境评估的总体框架, 以独特的方式将可持续性和循环性指标结合起来. SPHERE provides relevant metrics to assess and recommendations for methodologies and databases to use for each of our six packaging sustainability principles (包装效率, 循环, 对气候变化和生物多样性丧失的影响, 没有有害物质和废物管理不善).

2. 谁会用SPHERE?

所有生产或使用包装的公司都可以使用SPHERE. 主要目标是包装设计团队和产品组合经理. SPHERE can also be leveraged to inform global sustainability, procurement and marketing strategies. SPHERE是一个免费使用的框架，向所有人开放，并可在WBCSD网站上获得. SPHERE将很快集成到几个现有的包装评估工具中, 这将增加其可访问性.

3. 公司为什么要使用SPHERE?

Companies who wish to reduce the environmental impact of their packaging can use SPHERE to support decision-making at two levels: selection and design of a specific product packaging, 以及在投资组合级别改进包装决策.

4. SPHERE的范围是什么?

SPHERE is a material-agnostic framework that can be used for the assessment of primary, 食品和非食品的第二次和第三次包装. 它目前涵盖了可持续性的环境支柱. 它允许公司在全球范围内使用它, 并在相关的地方考虑当地的特点, e.g. 用于包装报废管理. Its scope is from cradle to grave, which encompasses packaging production, use and end of life. The framework can also be cradle-to-cradle if the company wishes to include packaging recovery cycles.

5. SPHERE如何定义包装的可持续性?

SPHERE defines packaging sustainability as maximum 循环 and minimum environmental footprint, 同时避免有害物质的存在. 为了支持这个定义, six principles have been developed: minimize the drivers of climate change; optimize efficiency; optimize 循环, optimize end of life; avoid harmful substances; and minimize the drivers of biodiversity loss.

6. SPHERE有什么新功能?

SPHERE allows companies to assess the environmental impact of their packaging holistically and compare the trade-offs associated with different packaging options for a broad range of impacts: drivers of climate change, 包装效率, 循环, 临终, 有害物质和生物多样性丧失的驱动因素. 另外, 公司可以为每个指标定义阈值, 允许根据边界条件对评估进行基准测试.

7. 框架和工具之间的区别是什么?

SPHERE提供了一个总体框架, 包装可持续性评估的结构化方法. A framework does not have a user interface and is not a tool (which computes data to produce a result), 然而，SPHERE允许使用各种工具. 因为它建议评估哪些指标, 如何评估它，从哪里找到数据, the framework can therefore be integrated into tools as long as they assess at least a metric per packaging sustainability principle.

8. 使用SPHERE我能期望得到什么价值?

SPHERE的目的是提供资料以支持内部决策, 由公司根据评估结果得出结论. By better understanding the environmental footprint of packaging products and where to prioritize action, companies can design long-term strategies to mitigate negative impacts over the life-cycle of packaging. SPHERE不用于报告.

9. 我们能从一个分数中推导出结果吗?

SPHERE is meant to provide businesses with a holistic view of their packaging sustainability, 因此不能用一个分数来表示. It allows to evaluate impacts and trade-offs in comparison to each other to support decision-making and inform long-term packaging strategies. 各公司得出的结论可能因其优先考虑的问题而有所不同, 由于没有灵丹妙药:他们可能想先解决浪费问题, 或者减少排放以实现净零排放目标.

10. 使用SPHERE需要哪些输入数据?

SPHERE建议用户使用原始数据来进行评估, while ensuring that the same scope and methodologies are used within the same case study for consistency and comparability.

11. 什么是阈值，如何按产品类别设置阈值?  

阈值是为每个指标独立设置的值, 允许公司评估他们对边界条件的包装影响. SPHERE recommends 3 approaches for thresholds setting, from highest to lowest priority:

• 基于科学的阈值是由相关科学界设定的目标, 目前存在的碳和水的评估;
• Best-in-class threshold may either be a pioneering example already available on the market for a given product category or one that demonstrates a high degree of innovation potential;
• 自我声明的阈值可以是内部目标，也可以是外部目标. 内部目标反映了公司的正规博彩十大网站排名战略, 而外部目标则由非政府组织或专家等第三方推动.

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12. 我如何使用测试结果?

Results obtained through an assessment following the SPHERE framework can be used to support decision-making on the design and materials of product packaging, 有两个不同的用例:

• 采用生态设计方法, companies can compare different packaging solutions against thresholds to choose the most sustainable one according to their needs, 要么是在投放市场之前，要么是作为现有包装的替代品.
• 用投资组合方法, companies can identify emission hotspots which will inform on the priority for action, 确保努力用在最重要的地方.

SPHERE also enables a company to model multiple improvement solutions of a given package and compare them against the same baseline, 从而做出明智的、有文件记录的决定.