An Integrated Framework for Environment Management System for Indian Food Packaging Industry

Industrialization and Globalization has proved that traditional regulatory approaches regarding environment protection has become incapable to attain the decided objectives. Environment management practices in India have been limited to acquiring accreditations and present themselves as green in the market without actually knowing the term “Environment Management”. Moreover India has weak norms and regulation as far as environment is concerned. This paper attempts to present research gaps in the area of Environment Management System (EMS) through the process of literature survey and also identifies the critical variables and develop an integrated framework for EMS in Indian Food Packaging Industry, in particular.