Role and Importance of Functional Food Packaging in Specialized Products for Vulnerable Populations: Implications for Innovation and Policy Development for Sustainability

Foods, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 11(19), P. 3043 - 3043

Published: Sept. 30, 2022

Specialized products can be needed to help meet the nutrition requirements of vulnerable populations, including infants and young children, those who are ill, older adults. Laws regulations delineate distinct categories for such medical foods or formulated liquid diets, special dietary use (FSDUs), infant formulas, natural health (NHPs). Yet, literature is limited regarding role importance functional sustainable packaging specialized products. This perspective review describes these unique product as well regulatory considerations. Furthermore, reviewed how waste reduction strategies emerging legislative/regulatory policies in United States Canada may not adequately address The paper concludes by offering perspectives innovations policy development sustainability.

Language: Английский

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An Overview of Packaging Waste Models in Some European Countries

Recycling, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 7(3), P. 38 - 38

Published: June 10, 2022

Efficient packaging waste management systems are essential considering recent revisions of the European legislation on that sets ambitious targets. rules aim to deal with increasing quantities waste, which cause environmental problems. Consequently, it is necessary identify functional achieve these targets effectively and efficiently. However, given heterogeneity different systems, policymakers, scholars, industry operators struggle have a comparative view. The number non-harmonized laws in force across countries, autonomous recycling targets, constant updates prominent problems make difficult obtain comparable information for research, business, policymaking. To fill this gap, our research question consists assigning responsibilities prevention, collection, recycling, recovery an overview some models at glance respect general governance functioning system. We base multiple-case design since more cases examined using complementary data collection methods, analysis previous literature, reports, legislation, business institutional websites. Our results provide insights from following cases: Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark, Spain, Italy. In addition, policy implications emerge as help overcome barriers market’s development caused by serving policymakers harmonize waste. paper also contains managerial circular economy can be used managers who or upgrade their according both legislative upgrades systems.

Language: Английский

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Recycling of Post-Consumer Polystyrene Packaging Waste into New Food Packaging Applications—Part 1: Direct Food Contact

Recycling, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 8(1), P. 26 - 26

Published: Feb. 16, 2023

The increase in plastic recycling is an essential pre-requisite for the transition to a circular economy. Polystyrene (PS) low diffusive polymer and therefore promising candidate back into food contact similar polyethylene terephthalate (PET). However, such of PS cups has been not established date on commercial scale. Even if desired, health consumer must be at risk. As consequence, processes go through conservative assessment by relevant authorities. For PS, however, evaluation criteria are published, which drawback process developers. Within study, post-consumer recyclates were evaluated way existing PET HDPE. packages with direct food, there still some points open cannot answered conclusively today. Upon closer inspection, appears enough information available give first indication as whether packaging materials can considered safe. knowledge gaps determined discussed.

Language: Английский

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Repair mechanism and application of self-healing materials for food preservation

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 11

Published: July 10, 2023

The traditional packaging concept has reached its limits when it comes to ensuring the quality of food and extending shelf life. Compared materials, with self-healing function is becoming more popular. This because they can automatically repair damaged area, restore original properties prevent decline loss nutrients. Materials based on various mechanisms have been developed used a laboratory scale in form coatings films for packaging. However, efforts are needed commercial application these new materials. Understanding mechanism materials very important their application. article first discusses different compares efficiency under conditions. Then, potential industry systematically analyzed. Finally, we give an outlook field

Language: Английский

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Global Bottled Water Industry: A Review of Impacts and Trends

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

UNU INWEH's mission is to help resolve pressing water challenges that are

Language: Английский

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In the nexus of sustainability, circular economy and food industry: Circular food package design

Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 415, P. 137778 - 137778

Published: June 10, 2023

Language: Английский

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Design from recycling: Overcoming barriers in regranulate use in a circular economy

Resources Conservation and Recycling, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 196, P. 107052 - 107052

Published: May 18, 2023

Despite government and consumer attitudes, industry's use of recycled material remains low narrowly scoped. Critical advances in recycling practices technology depend on increased scope application for regranulates, which can be achieved through design from principles. We investigated regranulates laboratory reprocessed the context processing, ability to meet functional requirements, viability closed loop recycling, strategies co-dependent industry reforms. Reprocessing results polymer degradation, changes melt flow rate (MFR) tensile impact strength (atN) restricts processing options. Contamination multilayer packaging cause MFR, atN, elastic modulus (E) elongation at break (εb) affecting application-specific requirements. The problem is complex, whereby preferences requirements recyclers, designers, industry, consumers are contradictory. New high value regranulate applications using clever necessary finance new sorting addition tolerance conservative product expectations circumvent these competing interests.

Language: Английский

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Influence of Packaging Design on Technical Emptiability of Dairy Products and Implications on Sustainability through Food Waste Reduction

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(15), P. 6335 - 6335

Published: July 24, 2024

Food loss and waste have been identified as significant contributors to existing environmental challenges. Previous studies extensively quantified losses throughout the value chain. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding influence packaging design on food residue quantities. This study analyses technical emptiability dairy product packaging, building upon previously described methods proposing new for standardized analysis. The results demonstrate variations in amounts depending type, fat content, viscosity, type design, well consumer handling. findings indicate that residues high-viscosity products, such yoghurt drinks buttermilk, can accumulate level exceeding 4% total filling weight packaging; meanwhile, low-viscosity milk, collectively represent less than 1% weight. Consumer handling instructions significantly reduce residues, shown by instruction shake before opening, which notably decreases products. Future legislation minimize impact will necessitate industry produces easy-to-empty packaging. improve sorting, recycling, recyclate quality, impact, consequently enhancing sustainability

Language: Английский

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Challenges for circular food packaging: Circular resources utilization

Applied Food Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 3(2), P. 100310 - 100310

Published: June 19, 2023

Packaging is considered as one of the most important activities food supply chain. Even though it serves a vital role in both chain management and manufacturing industry; knowledge base for implementation extended producer's responsibility packaging significantly ignored inadequate. Thus, aim this article to identify analyse challenges circular literature reduced waste sustainable To reach aforementioned aim, an initial step, systematic review conducted with 189 articles. Articles were gathered from databases including Web Science (WoS), MDPI Scopus. In total 26 are selected classified under 7 categories. Moreover, findings provide further analysis multi-dimensional perspective CE principles (9Rs), materials sub-sectors industry. The study ended interpretation results implications which will guide practitioners policy makers.

Language: Английский

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Techniques, applications, and prospects of recycled polyethylene terephthalate bottle: A review

Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 37(3), P. 1268 - 1286

Published: July 13, 2023

Growing industrialization and population deposit huge amounts of waste materials into nature every day. Environmental pollution is the biggest threat to life on earth, one major polluters throwaway plastic bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a harmful fossil fuel/petroleum-based material. This review focuses recent development recycling techniques PET their potential applications including fiber production, nanofibrous membrane, air filtering materials, water reinforced concrete formation, energy harvesting etc. In addition, two most promising methods for recycling: chemical mechanical are discussed. The appropriate technologies disposal procedures suggested based socio-economic aspects problem. progress this topic has been prospect these recycled mentioned at end article.

Language: Английский

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