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The research was carried out under financial support obtained from the research subsidy of the Faculty of Engineering Management (WIZ) of Bialystok University of Technology from the grant No. WZ/WIZ-INZ/4/2022 (Olga Orynycz, Andrzej L. Wasiak). The research was carried out under financial support obtained from the research subsidy of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW).
Plastic packaging of food products has a significant impact on the sustainability of the food
industry and trade. The article presents selected problems surrounding the production of plastic
packaging for food storage and distribution that might cause disruptions in the implementation
of sustainable production. An important question regards the extent to which the industry that
produces this packaging complies with the sustainability requirements. The present work consists in
an investigation of the problems observed in a plastic packaging manufacturing company located in
Poland, which is part of a global corporation. Plastic waste management was analyzed and compared
with the requirements of a closed loop economy. The quantities of raw material processed and the
quantities of waste in the defined period were analyzed. During the analyzed period, 0.05% of the
monthly production was non-recyclable waste. The quality of raw material seems to be responsible
for the majority of wastes. Therefore, the important role of SAP (Systems Applications and Products)
in the use of lower quality batches of raw material is indicated. On the other hand, a possibility of
converting the wastes into liquid or gaseous fuels is suggested. In addition, the paper investigates
the efficiency of machine use in a film bag production line in a three-shift system. Process losses were
analyzed and reliability indicators such as overall equipment efficiency (OEE) and its components,
mean time between failures (MTBF), and mean failure repair time (MTTR) were determined. The
monthly OEE values for each change individually exceeded 80%.
