Comparative analysis on beverage store owners towards sustainable packaging using multicriteria decision techniques

Abstract

In recent years, the food and beverage industry has been experiencing rapid growth. The consumption of plastic or Styrofoam cups also grew with the observed market growth. In Canada, an approximate CAD $147.12 million worth of plastic cups and lids are produced yearly but only 9% end up being recycled. Therefore, there is a growing need for a more sustainable beverage packaging. To analyze if such decisions are warranted in small to medium sized café in the Philippines, the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods such as ELECTRE III and TOPSIS will be used in this research. With the data of both storeowner and supplier perspective, it was found that quality has the most affect at 36.3% followed by the availability of sizes at 32.6%. As it turns out, the result of this study favored the more plastic-oriented traditional cups and lids. Even though the initial hypothesis favored the more sustainable packaging, the analysis and methodology were still successfully carried out. Thus, prompting the importance of future research regarding the pursuit of sustainable packaging.