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Expert Panel
Andrea Guisbert-Williams
International Consultant North American
Logistics Organization at Eli Lilly
attached environmental emissions are seen as large
drawbacks to reusable containers.
In order to delve deeper into whether reusable
packaging is the right choice for the Canadian
market, Pharma Logistics IQ gathered insights from
a selection of experts due to feature in the 15th Cold
Chain Canada Conference.
Would you agree there has been a shift towards
reusable and sustainable packaging within
temperature controlled logistics? What are the
possible reasons for this?
Andrea: I think its a pleasant by-product of
the [modal] shift in regards to transportation, in
particular ocean as opposed to air. Not only is
it more desirable as far as the carbon footprint
and the effect on the environment, its also much
cheaper. The example I can give you concerns
some of the research I have done here at Lilly with
shipments of insulin.
Some of the packaging that we are using is
reusable and we are developing a new blanket
for cold temperature protection. The temperature
range that we are shipping in is two to eight for
these particular products that we have validated
so far. These blankets have a ten time reuse. After
the usage, cleaning and all the steps involved with
recycling them, it boils down to about US$15 per
use. We are using a refrigerated reefer to ship our
products on ocean vessels.
They are strapped and wrapped as any normal
pallet would be for our shipping processes, but no
secondary temperature control [is used] outside of
the blanket.
Gilles: At Pharmascience we have seen that shift:
going from single use packaging to reusable. To be
Gilles Gregoire
Global transportation Manager, Pharmascience:
Nathalie L Ecuyer
Quality and Compliance Director, McKesson
Canada
Nathalie: It is the
transportation and the
reverse logistics - Being
Standardisation
Forecasts: in
Single-Use-Systems
The Rise
of Reusable Packaging
Canada's Cold Chains
That has to be evaluated together with the service
provider.
Standardisation
Forecasts: in
Single-Use-Systems
The Rise
of Reusable Packaging
Canada's Cold Chains
long term, as the solutions [advance] and there are
more transportation companies involved, maybe it
will be easier. But I dont think its going to be very
high in the near future.
For a further breakdown of pros and cons of
reusable container read the latest column from
Gary Hutchinson - Sustainability The Pros and
Cons of Reusable Containers versus Single-use
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