TY - GEN
T1 - Plastic packaging material value conservation and evident of the consumers' acceptance
AU - Gabriel, Djoko Sihono
AU - Isnandar, Dadang
AU - Jeremia, Andreanos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Virgin plastic pellets are widely used as raw materials in flexible plastic packaging which generate abundant postconsumer plastic waste. The widespread use of recycled plastic pellets as raw materials will reduce plastic waste generation significantly. However, substitution of virgin materials need high quality of recycled plastic pellets which produced from good quality of plastic waste. Design for material value conservation in this case study was a trial implementation of design principles of plastic bag in order to minimize its value degradation of plastic waste, and therefore increase its acceptance by plastic recycling industries. A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with Lisrel 8.8 software used as tool of analysis in evaluating consumer acceptance of the two types of design paradigm, current design and material value conservation based design. The results indicated that consumers accepted both type of packaging. With final standard factor loading, the proposed design indicated slightly better correlation coefficients: 0.46 for Ease of Information Delivery and 0.74 for Informational Content variables, better than current design with 0.44 and 0.73 coefficients. Widespread implementation of design for material value conservation will save virgin plastic consumption for plastic packaging production, reduce plastic waste generation as well as support material resource conservation in a better condition of environment. The social and economic benefit will also be obtained as multiplier effect of material value conservation.
AB - Virgin plastic pellets are widely used as raw materials in flexible plastic packaging which generate abundant postconsumer plastic waste. The widespread use of recycled plastic pellets as raw materials will reduce plastic waste generation significantly. However, substitution of virgin materials need high quality of recycled plastic pellets which produced from good quality of plastic waste. Design for material value conservation in this case study was a trial implementation of design principles of plastic bag in order to minimize its value degradation of plastic waste, and therefore increase its acceptance by plastic recycling industries. A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with Lisrel 8.8 software used as tool of analysis in evaluating consumer acceptance of the two types of design paradigm, current design and material value conservation based design. The results indicated that consumers accepted both type of packaging. With final standard factor loading, the proposed design indicated slightly better correlation coefficients: 0.46 for Ease of Information Delivery and 0.74 for Informational Content variables, better than current design with 0.44 and 0.73 coefficients. Widespread implementation of design for material value conservation will save virgin plastic consumption for plastic packaging production, reduce plastic waste generation as well as support material resource conservation in a better condition of environment. The social and economic benefit will also be obtained as multiplier effect of material value conservation.
KW - Consumer acceptance
KW - Design for material value conservation
KW - Plastic packaging
KW - Plastic recycling
KW - Structural equation modelling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052760505&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.773.390
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.773.390
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052760505
SN - 9783035713374
T3 - Key Engineering Materials
SP - 390
EP - 395
BT - Applied Engineering, Materials and Mechanics II
A2 - Hu, Jong Wan
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Applied Engineering, Materials and Mechanics, ICAEMM 2018
Y2 - 20 April 2018 through 22 April 2018
ER -