After nearly two years of extensive research and stakeholder engagement, the可持续包装联盟（SPC）已发布其可持续包装指标和指标框架1.0版，旨在帮助公司衡量进展可持续包装的SPC定义.
According to SPC, the Metrics Framework provides a wide-ranging palette of indicators and metrics that are organized into eight categories: material use, energy use, water use, material health, clean production and transport, cost and performance, community impact, and worker impact. Each framework module explains why the measurements are relevant to sustainability efforts, defines each indicator as it relates to packaging, specifies the metric to be used, and provides recommendations for what and what not to measure.
The technical document, based on international standards and protocols, was jointly developed by a group of stakeholders representing leadership companies throughout the packaging supply chain. A primary reason the SPC undertook the framework project, it says, was to respond to marketplace concerns about the proliferation of individual company sustainable packaging metrics and scorecards.
“Without consistent guidance, sustainability criteria vary significantly from one company to the next,” saysGreenBlue凯瑟琳奥迪亚，框架首席作者。“这种缺乏协调使数据收集过程耗时耗费且昂贵的供应商，以及公司难以随着时间的推移一致地基准其性能。我们的希望是指数框架将标准化行业如何衡量其使包装更可持续的进展。“
所选指标度量框架的so serving as the baseline for the Global Packaging Project (GPP), an initiative of the消费品论坛, that seeks to standardize packaging sustainability measurement by developing a globally recognized set of indicators and metrics with common data request and collection protocols.
Pilot testing of the GPP metrics is expected to begin in the first half of 2010. The SPC will follow the pilot testing process and incorporate feedback into a Version 2.0 of the Metrics Framework so that any indicator and metrics common to both resources will be compatible and consistent in terms of language, data request and collection guidelines, and referenced measurement standards and protocols.
