Research results. For harmonization of economic and social life, it is necessary
to concern the interests of a producer, consumer and society as a whole. For food
products packaging, the triad of these interests is shown by Figure 1.
Figure 1. The triad of interests of a producer, consumer and society for food
products packaging
Source: developed by the authors
Table 1 shows the main requirements to food products packaging in the context
of this triad of interests.
Table 1 Requirements to food products packaging
Interests of society
Interests of consumer
Interests of producer
- security;
- ecological
compatibility;
- reuse of packaging
- security;
- reliability;
- compatibility with the goods;
- attractiveness of appearance;
- the convenience of use;
- informativeness;
- reuse of packaging
- economic efficiency;
- reliability;
- convenience of
transportation and storage
Source: developed by the authors
To consider the interests of society, it is important to make packaging, which can
be reused, easily recycled or utilized. Urgency of this problem is forced by the fact that
a large area of agricultural land is under landfills with a great share of used packaging
and harmful exhausts from garbage negatively affect the health of the population of
adjacent regions. A particular attention is paid to the problem of reuse, processing and
utilization of packaging in Ukraine. Table 2 presents information about production and
utilization of wastes by material criterion in Ukraine for the period of 2011-2017.
Analysis of the Table 2 confirms that in 2017, as compared to 2016, there was a
growth of production of glass, paper and cardboard, plastic wastes, while production
of household and similar waste reduced. Utilization of wastes in 2017, as compared to
2016, increased in such groups, as glass wastes, household and similar wastes.
However, comparing 2017 to 2011, in Ukraine, percentage of utilization sufficiently
reduced, i.e. glass wastes – from 32,35 % to 9,88 %, paper and cardboard wastes –
from 31,46 % to 17,03 %, plastic wastes – from 100 % to 21,27 %, household and
Interests of society
Disposal or reuse
Interests of consumer
Safety, convenience,
variety
Interests of produser
Minimizing costs, ease of
logistics operations
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