More sustainable solutions for food packaging are needed to tackle the overuse of plastic in society. The materials used to protect food serve critical functions to ensure traceability, quality, safety, and reduction of food waste. There is not a one size fits all solution. The material choices have to be tailored to the food they must protect, the shelf life or the supply chain, and also the package design needs to take into consideration its end of life, sorting, consumer’s behavior, and the ability to re-enter in a circular value chain. The research related to more sustainable food packaging solutions is multidisciplinary, it requires a whole system approach and the engagement of various stakeholders. This research topic, by collecting the contribution of various researchers of the circul-a-bility network will provide with a state of the art in this multidisciplinary field, focused on providing high quality food to consumers.
This is a Research Topic combining the contributions of the 2nd international conference in sustainable food packaging of the Circul-a-bility network. The topic will cover research focused on all aspects of sustainable food packaging, including new materials and their physical chemical properties, end of life, recyclability, the safety of the food contact materials, their ability to protect or enhance the shelf life of the food, the design of more active and intelligent solutions, consumer behavior and life cycle analysis.
Research contributions, reviews and perspectives are welcome.
The topics in scope for the submission span all the dimensions of the sustainable food packaging domain
• Life cycle assessment and eco-design analysis
• Bio-based packaging, intelligent and active packaging
• End of life studies, recyclability
• Food contact materials, their safety and material properties
• Post-harvest changes due to packaging modifications
• Consumer studies and organizational-stakeholder analyses
More sustainable solutions for food packaging are needed to tackle the overuse of plastic in society. The materials used to protect food serve critical functions to ensure traceability, quality, safety, and reduction of food waste. There is not a one size fits all solution. The material choices have to be tailored to the food they must protect, the shelf life or the supply chain, and also the package design needs to take into consideration its end of life, sorting, consumer’s behavior, and the ability to re-enter in a circular value chain. The research related to more sustainable food packaging solutions is multidisciplinary, it requires a whole system approach and the engagement of various stakeholders. This research topic, by collecting the contribution of various researchers of the circul-a-bility network will provide with a state of the art in this multidisciplinary field, focused on providing high quality food to consumers.
This is a Research Topic combining the contributions of the 2nd international conference in sustainable food packaging of the Circul-a-bility network. The topic will cover research focused on all aspects of sustainable food packaging, including new materials and their physical chemical properties, end of life, recyclability, the safety of the food contact materials, their ability to protect or enhance the shelf life of the food, the design of more active and intelligent solutions, consumer behavior and life cycle analysis.
Research contributions, reviews and perspectives are welcome.
The topics in scope for the submission span all the dimensions of the sustainable food packaging domain
• Life cycle assessment and eco-design analysis
• Bio-based packaging, intelligent and active packaging
• End of life studies, recyclability
• Food contact materials, their safety and material properties
• Post-harvest changes due to packaging modifications
• Consumer studies and organizational-stakeholder analyses