SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK KAVRAMININ AMBALAJ TASARIMINA ETKİLERİNİN İRDELENMESİ.

The concept of sustainability refers sustainable development or sustainable living. A broad concept of sustainability has taken place in the United Nations Bruntland Report in 1987. In the report, sustainable development was defined as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". With the understanding of sustainable environment, development of sustainable product design model including conservation of the resources, ecomomic benefits of recycling, product service system and production methods etc. is required. The concept of sustainability must be taken into consideration not only political and economical aspects, but company management decisions and strategies, designer approaches and environmental impacts including energy use. material consumption and labor costs be addressed in terms of the current preferences and trends. Within the scope of this study, 'Concept of Sustainability' effects on company7 management decisions and these decisions impacts on sustainable product design will be emphasized. "Sustainable product design stages of producer in the process of decision making requires taken in to account the important points to uncover and to ensure their use" and "develop a model of product design to assess of sustainability, global energy use. labor costs, material consumption, product service system and recycling" constitutes the aim of the study. The study area was chosen as the Packaging Industry. Impact of sustainable design criteria on company's organizational structure has been determined by a case study in the packaging industry. Selected evaluation units were researched with the life cycle assessment (LCA) steps for analysing sustainability of material and energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]