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The Next Generation of Sustainable Food Packaging to Preserve Our Environment in a Circular Economy Context

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Guillard, Valérie, Gaucel, Sébastien, Fornaciari, Claudio, Angellier-Coussy, Hélène, Buche, Patrice, Gontard, Nathalie·2018·Frontiers in Nutrition
DOI 10.3389/fnut.2018.00121PMC PMC6288173
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Packaging is an essential element of response to address key challenges of sustainable food consumption on the international scene, which is clearly about minimizing the environmental footprint of packed food. An innovative sustainable packaging aims to address food waste and loss reduction by preserving food quality, as well as food safety issues by preventing food-borne diseases and food chemical contamination. Moreover, it must address the long-term crucial issue of environmentally persistent plastic waste accumulation as well as the saving of oil and food material resources. This paper reviews the major challenges that food packaging must tackle in the near future in order to enter the virtuous loop of circular bio-economy. Some solutions are proposed to address pressing international stakes in terms of food and plastic waste reduction and end-of-life issues of persistent materials. Among potential solutions, production of microbial biodegradable polymers from agro-food waste residues seems a promising route to create an innovative, more resilient, and productive waste-based food packaging economy by decoupling the food packaging industry from fossil feed stocks and permitting nutrients to return to the soil. To respond to the lack of tools and approach to properly design and adapt food packaging to food needs, mathematical simulation, based on modeling of mass transfer and reactions into food/packaging systems are promising tools. The next generation of such modeling and tools should help the food packaging sector to validate usage benefit of new packaging solutions and chose, in a fair and transparent way, the best packaging solution to contribute to the overall decrease of food losses and persistent plastic accumulation.

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  • Using well-dimensioned packaging reduces food losses and waste as well as packaging waste.

    “Guillard et al. (2018) suggested that food packaging should be well adapted to the food content.Using well-dimensioned packaging was found to reduce food losses and waste as well as packaging waste.”

    From Packaging design for the circular economy: A systematic review (2022) · cites this paper as Guillard et al. (2018)

    The Introduction and the section on assessing packaging benefits say that well-dimensioned packaging adapted to food needs can reduce food losses and waste, although the benefit still needs to be quantified. They do not say that well-dimensioned packaging also reduces packaging waste; the Introduction treats packaging waste as a separate burden and cautions that reducing food and packaging waste may mean using more packaging. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Microbial biodegradable biopolymers made from food waste that allow nutrients to return to the soil seem to be an eco-friendlier type of material for a resilient food packaging economy than not-so-easy degradable biodegradable polymers.

    “In comparison to not-so-easy degradable 'biodegradable polymers', microbial biodegradable biopolymers -which are made from food waste and allows nutrients to return to the soil -seems to be an eco-friendlier type of materials for a resilient food packaging economy (Guillard et al., 2018).”

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Guillard, V., Gaucel, S., Fornaciari, C., Angellier-Coussy, H., Buche, P., & Gontard, N.
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Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
Corresponding author
Guillard, Valérie
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Frontiers in Nutrition
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Frontiers Media SA
Published
2018-12-04
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5
Pages
121-121
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2296-861X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fnut.2018.00121
PMC
PMC6288173
OpenAlex
W2903385015
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Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (1329-520, 1322-578)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
Keywords
sustainable food packaging, circular economy, bio-based packaging, agri-food waste, plastic waste reduction, food waste reduction, food safety, food poisoning, mass transfer modeling, packaging design, end-of-life packaging, circular bioeconomy

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