The evaluation concerned aluminium cans, glass bottles and PET bottles. The analysis that has been carried out showed that energy consumption is the lowest in the production process of PET bottles whereas aluminium cans revealed to be the most disadvantageous. The evaluation of harmful substance emission has not been so unequivocal taking into account various chemical compounds emitted during the production process of particular packages. A conclusion can be drawn, however, that if the most often compared in the literature compounds are concerned (carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides) the PET bottle is the most ecological. The evaluation has been presented on the basis of collected literature data.