Waste Management in Food Packaging Industries

2008 ◽  
pp. 941-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Packaging

scholarly journals The Role of Food Packaging Design in Consumer Recycling Behavior—A Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babak Nemat ◽  
Mohammad Razzaghi ◽  
Kim Bolton ◽  
Kamran Rousta
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Packaging Waste ◽  
Proper Design ◽  
Recycling Behavior

Household waste sorting at the source is an essential part of the waste management system in many countries. Correct sorting of this waste, including food packaging waste, is cost-effective, it facilitates the recycling process and enhances the quality of the recycled product. Although there is a growing body of research that studies the effect of different attributes of food packaging on household recycling behavior, the effect of these attributes on the sorting of the food packaging waste is not well known. This contribution reviews work that studies the relationship between attributes of food packaging and consumer sorting behavior. The review highlights the potential of the visual attributes and the quality of packaging as a communication channel for encouraging consumers to sort the food packaging waste. The efficiency of the waste management system and the quality of recycled products can hence be affected by the proper design of food packaging.

scholarly journals Sustainable Food Packaging: Materials and Waste Management Solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Visvaldas Varžinskas ◽  
Zita Markevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Contamination ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Packaging Waste ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
World Demand ◽  
High Concern ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact ◽  
Legislative Changes

The current food packaging model in most cases is a linear material flow model and is far from the sustainable alternative – circular economy – approach where materials are recycled and recovered at the end of each service life. High concern is rising on packaging waste and especially plastic packaging and negative environmental impact. A number of factors, including policy and legislative changes, rising concerns on food and packaging waste, environmental contamination, and world demand for food and energy resources, undoubtedly make an impact on development of biodegradable and compostable packaging made from renewable environment friendly resources and a sustainable waste management opportunity at the end of product life. Food packaging industry already has options of compostable packaging that meets biodegradation and composting standards and does not impact environmental contamination, but a variety of existing bio-labels such as biobased, biodegradable, and compostable appear misleading for consumers, and terms biodegradable and compostable are often used as synonyms, although they are not the same.

scholarly journals The mechanism of stimulating the rational management of municipal waste: international experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Y. A. Chernookiy ◽  
◽  
A. D. Murzin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Rational Management

Municipal solid waste management is a critical factor in sustainable development. This task is the most important priority of state policy at the present time. The purpose of the study is to review the experience of leading countries in the field of economic incentives for the rational management of municipal waste. The study examines the experience of Germany and Croatia in the implementation of a depository-pledge system for handling containers and food packaging. As a result, the study examines the prospects and ad-vantages of using this system in the Russian context.

scholarly journals Polylactic acid (PLA): Improve it, use it, and dump it faster

BioResources ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 2196-2199
Author(s):  
Narongrit Sombatsompop ◽  
Panupong Srimalanon ◽  
Teerasak Markpin ◽  
Benjaphorn Prapagdee
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Polylactic Acid ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Antibacterial Agents ◽  
It Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Use ◽  
Alternative Approaches

Today, many people enjoy an easy lifestyle. However, this comfort has come with a price because of plastic that is thrown away after a single use. As such, governments around the world have pushed for biodegradable plastics to be produced, especially for food packaging, and these can be easily seen in supermarkets, for example. Using plastic for only one time has resulted in environmental pollution. To solve this problem, polylactic acid (PLA) has been introduced as an alternative bio-based plastic to replace artificial petroleum-based plastics. PLA comes from renewable resources and is biodegradable under certain conditions. Furthermore, the development of the properties of PLA could solve problems related to its weakness in packaging applications. This editorial proposes expansion of the property attributes of PLA to include hygienic character, through the addition of antibacterial agents. This can be done by introducing two alternative approaches for waste management: PLA recycling and degradation. However, some key research is still needed to improve the properties and waste management of PLA relative to the effectiveness of its reprocessing and acceleration of its (bio)degradation.

MARKET AND SUSTAINABILITY OF FOOD PACKAGING: A REVIEW

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Sílvia Boroni de Oliveira ◽  
Nathália Ramos de Melo
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
Essential Tool ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Industrial Demand

Food packaging is an essential tool in the food industry for protecting products from environmental interference that may be detrimental to the product and to the consumers’ health. As a result, the global packaging market is growing and stimulates the development of new technologies to meet the industrial demand. However, with the growth of the production and use of materials from fossil sources, as well as the lack of adequate programs for post-consumer waste management, there has been a deliberate disposal of these materials into the environment, resulting in ecological impacts and health consequences. In this sense, renewable sources have gained prominence and biologically originated materials are one of the main alternatives for new applications in packaging.

scholarly journals Partisipasi Pelaku Usaha Pariwisata dalam Pengelolaan Sampah di Pantai Pulang Sawal, Kabupaten Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Jussac Maulana Masjhoer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Evaluation Phase ◽  
Inorganic Waste ◽  
Management Issues

Tourism business actors at Pulang Sawal Beach produce waste as many as tourists visit. The waste management issues at the beach area could affect the tourist’s comfort if the problems left unsolved. This study aims to determine the type of waste generated, as well as the participation of tourism business actors in waste management. The type of research used in this study is descriptive qualitative. The population in this study is a tourism business actor at Pulang Sawal Beach. The sampling method used in this study is simple random sampling. Data collection techniques are through observation, interviews, questionnaires, and documentation. The data obtained is then analyzed using qualitative analysis. The type of organic waste produced is in the form of food leftovers, raw materials leftovers, paper, cardboard, cartons, newspapers, etc. While the types of inorganic waste produced are plastic bags, food packaging, plastic and glass bottles, etc. The results showed that tourism business actors participated in the decision-making stage as much as 37%, participated in the implementation of 67.8%, participated in taking benefits as much as 100%, and participated in the evaluation phase as much as 95%. Low participation in decision making due to the lack of knowledge related to waste management, so they choose to listen and accept every decision that is made. They have not implemented good waste management. Tourism business actors agree that a clean business environment benefits both the convenience of work and visitors and assesses that waste management is in accordance with planning. 

scholarly journals A genetic algorithm to solve a three-echelon capacitated location problem for a distribution center within a solid waste management system in the northern region of Veracruz, Mexico

DYNA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (191) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Del Rosario Pérez-Salazar ◽  
Nicolás Francisco Mateo-Díaz ◽  
Rogelio García-Rodríguez ◽  
Carlos Eusebio Mar-Orozco ◽  
Lidilia Cruz-Rivero
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Facility Location ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Location Problem ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Mixed Integer

<p class="ADYNAAbstrac"><span lang="EN-US">Mexico is the world’s third largest consumer of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), only preceded by the United States and China. PET is commonly used in plastic containers such as beverage bottles and food packaging. It can be argued that the main problem regarding pollution generated by PET waste lies in the lack of appropriate solid waste management. The decision regarding facility location is the central issue in solid waste management. A mixed integer linear programming model of the capacitated facility location problem is proposed and then a genetic algorithm is designed to optimize the model. The problem is described as follows: given the quantities of PET generated in the northern region of Veracruz, Mexico, by considering five cities and each as a single generation source, a collection center has to be selected among a set of pre-identified locations in the town of Tempoal, Veracruz; in order to serve a set of demand points in the re-use market; demands are assumed to be uncertain. The aim is to minimize the system’s overall cost.</span></p>

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