Sustainable food packaging strategy for Mexico

Navn
Valeria Garduño Lopez
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Institut
Bygningskunst og Design
Program
Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship
År
2021

A design strategy for A better waste stream in Mexico. by making food packaging that can easily be separated for its correct sorting and management. Nudging the final user to discard the packaging correctly, the materiality communicates sustainability and the form informs how to handle the packaging once the product has been consumed. The solution decreases the use of plastic for food packaging.

The production and design acknowledges and addresses the current environmental impact.
The design proposal reduces the amount of plastic used for its production, adding a structural compostable layer for protection. By doing so the project aims to reduce the 4 tons of plastic produced yearly by the food industry in Mexico.
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Strategic positioning of Maqsis: Product journey that shows the strategic positioning of Maqsis, and how by changing our production we can impact the rest of the supply chain.
Background: My family owns a packaging business I have been working with them actively and on the sidelines for almost 16 years. This is a picture from 2010, this is my mother Guadalupe the owner of Maqsis. Maqsis focuses on providing packaging solutions for food producers in Mexico and latin America.

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