Abstract
Though there is a clear distinction between ‘packaging’ and ‘labelling’, we have lumped them together as one, because they overlap in two major functions: protection and display. In this chapter, we are concerned with both of these, and also with the monetary and ecological costs of packaging waste.
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Impressive evidence of the disproportionate extra cost of small packs may be found, for example, in Price Commission Report No. 21, The Unit Prices of Small Packs (London: HMSO, 1976).
See ‘The Impulse Buyers’ in the Sunday Times (25 July 1976), p. 41. This is a brief report on the 1976 survey ‘How Housewives Really Shop’, carried out by the market research firm, Business Decisions Ltd, and available through Marketing magazine.
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For example: Friends of the Earth, Packaging in Britain (London: FOE, 1973).
Subject/search headings: packaging, containers, labelling, information, waste disposal etc.
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Medawar, C. (1978). Packaging and Labelling. In: The Social Audit Consumer Handbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15908-6_6
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