Non-plastic food packaging weight by packaging type and entity
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports the weight of non-plastic packaging used for food products, broken down by reporting entity and packaging type, including primary, secondary and tertiary packaging.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- tonnes — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report total non-plastic packaging weight, disaggregated by reporting entity and packaging type or layer.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Packaging materials and waste
- Controlled domain
- Materials, circularity and waste
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Non-plastic primary, secondary and tertiary packaging used for food products.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Page 76, Section 3.3, Table 12
- Adopting DisclosureFA.A2.2
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 76, Section 3.3, Table 12
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- tonnes — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use tonnes under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- Reporting entity
- Packaging type
- Packaging layer
- Non-plastic packaging weight (tonnes)
Published dimensions
- reporting entity
- packaging layer: primary, secondary or tertiary
- non-plastic packaging type
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. The source describes a standalone physical-flow metric with a mass unit and explicit entity and packaging-type disaggregation. It is narrower than total waste generated because it measures packaging used for food products rather than discarded material from own operations.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
TNFD additional sector guidance collection
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Locator
- Page 76, Section 3.3, Table 12
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Non-plastic food packaging weight by packaging type and entity”.
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Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Define the packaging types included as non-plastic.
- Describe the basis for assigning packaging to primary, secondary or tertiary layers.
- Describe the method used to measure or estimate packaging weight.
- Identify the reporting entities covered.
Record-specific limitations
- The metric excludes plastic packaging.
- Comparability depends on consistent classification of packaging layers and non-plastic packaging types across reporting entities.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.