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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Packaging Legislation and Unintended Consequences: A Case Study on the Necessity of Life Cycle Management
verfasst von : James Michael Martinez
Erschienen in: Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Management
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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This paper presents a case study of the unintended consequences associated with ignoring life cycle management (LCM) tools in enacting restrictive packaging legislation. In 1988, the city council in Portland, Oregon, USA, enacted an ordinance requiring food vendors to discontinue the use of polystyrene foam foodservice products. In the ensuing years, it became clear that the Portland ban had failed to improve environmental quality because the city council ignored LCM data on the environmental advantages of foam. LCM that considers multitudinous variables can improve decision-making and lead to effective environmental stewardship; unfortunately, policymakers sometimes ignore LCM data, relying instead on outdated, unreliable information or subscribing to conventional wisdom that produces facile, short-sighted conclusions, as the Portland case study illustrates.