Carbon footprint of package leaflets

Rubrik: Originale

(Treffer aus pharmind, Nr. 11, Seite 1046 (2023))

Dobers K | Gerbsch N | Mandry T | Preut A

Carbon footprint of package leaflets / A comparative study on greenhouse gas emissions of paper-based and digital package leaflets for pharmaceuticals – Part 1 · Dobers K¹, Gerbsch N², Mandry T², Preut A¹ · ¹Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, Dortmund (Germany) und IGES Institut GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
Package leaflet Carbon footprint Electronic patient information Carbon calculator Pharmaceutical companies aim at more sustainable solutions and products. Digitization advances and enables alternative flows of information such as providing the package leaflets (PL) required by law [1] in electronic formats such as pdf files on dedicated company websites or by pilot projects such as GI 4.0 [2]. The digitization of PL opens perspectives for innovative patient information integrated into electronic patient files or medication plans and overcoming limitations of printed PL such as language barriers, reading size or the timely provision of updates. It is assumed that providing the information electronically ...