Packaging in the Environment Domänen und Since the amount of material 53 Since the amount of material available is too great to enable one to aspire to a presentation of the complete biogeographical and ecological picture He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the American Statistical Association it identifies and explains what are seen to be the main issues and discusses the responses being made to them in different parts of the world the trends and the extent to which they are converging • consider what constitutes environmentally responsible packaging manufacture • discuss and compare the relative environmental merits and differ ences between the various packaging materials and systems • address the requirements for identifying and controlling manufac turing impacts and the role of environmental auditing in this process