This essay aims to understand the main relationships between packaging systems and our daily lives. The way we use, consume and discard them as long as their implications in value perception. Several aspects of packaging systems were analised such as their importance for retail and lifestyles, their different environmental impacts, their life cycles, their role in the garbage disposal problem and the amount of waste they represent. Lately, we look at the different package life cycles in search for an environmentally concious direction, todays perspectives and proposals and the importance of LCA - Life Cycle Assesment - and LCD - Life Cycle Design - to product development. To complete the research, an specific case study is presented: packages used in the distribution of tomatoes in natura, observing the available alternatives and the effective proposals to reduce the amount of waste generated in the process.