Unit $8$ Assignment: Packaging and Handling

Packaging and handling are two key disciplines within the profession of strategic warehouse management. When successfully employed, these disciplines can make a positive difference in the world, in business, and in life.

This assignment will assess your knowledge based on the following Outcomes:

MT$437-4$: Apply package and handling concepts within a warehouse management environment.

GEL$-1\mathrm{.}02$: Demonstrate college$-$level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.

GEL$-3\mathrm{.}04$: Examine the relationship between science and technology and the impact on the natural world.

This assignment has you zoom into two areas of this discipline to fine grain detail. Ensure that your paper includes each of the following topics with an appropriate breadth and depth demonstrating knowledge of the outcomes.

Package Design

What is the career area of package design? What competencies are expected of professionals within this area of professional discipline?

Package Disposal

What is the career area of package disposal? What competencies are expected of professionals within this area of professional discipline?

Review your research supporting these two areas and compare package design and package disposal principles to those that illustrate the effect that science and technology has upon the natural world as follows:

What effect does science and technology have upon the natural world?

How can professionals within package design and package disposal take a leadership role towards having a positive impact, and promote positive social change, towards protection and improvement of the natural world?