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Company views of consumers regarding sustainable packaging
Herbes, Carsten; Mielinger, Ellen; Krauter, Victoria; Arranz, Elena; Hurtado, Rosa María Cámara; Marcos, Begonya; Poças, Fátima; Maya, Salvador Ruiz deIn the transition towards more sustainable food packaging, food companies play a key role: they decide what type of packaging to use in their production. Past research posits that corporate decision making on sustainable packaging is driven by perceived consumer demand, making it important to understand how companies see consumers, a topic largely neglected in the literature. Our study aims at uncovering how fo...
Decision-making processes on sustainable packaging options in the European food...
Weinrich, Ramona; Mielinger, Ellen; Krauter, Victoria; Arranz, Elena; Hurtado, Rosa Maria Camara; Marcos, Begonya; Poças, Fátima; Maya, Salvador Ruiz deFood packaging improves shelf life and allows longer transportation distances in global food supply chains, but it is also responsible for huge volumes of waste. The transition to sustainable packaging by food companies has often been slow and inconsistent. How decisions on (sustainable) packaging are made within companies in the food sector remains mostly opaque to research. To explore the decision-making proc...
Valorization of cork stoppers, coffee-grounds and walnut shells in the developm...
Cruz, Rui M. S.; Rainer, Bernhard; Wagner, Isabella; Krauter, Victoria; Janalíková, Magda; Vicente, A. A.; Vieira, Jorge Miguel MagalhãesThe development of sustainable materials from the valorization of waste is a good alternative to reducing the negative environmental impact of plastic packaging. The objectives of this study were to develop and characterize pectin-based composite films incorporated with cork or cork with either coffee grounds or walnut shells, as well as to test the films genotoxicity, antioxidant properties, and biodegradation...
Valorization of cork stoppers, coffee-grounds and walnut shells in the developm...
Cruz, Rui; Rainer, Bernhard; Wagner, Isabella; Krauter, Victoria; Janalíková, Magda; Vicente, António A.; Vieira, Jorge M.The development of sustainable materials from the valorization of waste is a good alternative to reducing the negative environmental impact of plastic packaging. The objectives of this study were to develop and characterize pectin-based composite films incorporated with cork or cork with either coffee grounds or walnut shells, as well as to test the films’ genotoxicity, antioxidant properties, and biodegradatio...
Sustainable food packaging: an updated definition following a holistic approach
Dörnyei, Krisztina Rita; Uysal-Unalan, Ilke; Krauter, Victoria; Weinrich, Ramona; Incarnato, Loredana; Karlovits, Igor; Colelli, GiancarloFood packaging solutions need to be redesigned to be more sustainable, but determining which solution is ‘more optimal’ is a very difficult task when considering the entire food product value chain. Previous papers paved the way toward a sustainable food packaging definition, but it is far from being commonly accepted or well usable in the broad food systems domain, which further results in uninformed choices f...
Bioplastics for food packaging: environmental impact, trends and regulatory asp...
Cruz, Rui; Krauter, Victoria; Krauter, Simon; Agriopoulou, Sofia; Weinrich, Ramona; Herbes, Carsten; Scholten, Philip B. V.; Uysal-Unalan, IlkeThe demand to develop and produce eco-friendly alternatives for food packaging is increasing. The huge negative impact that the disposal of so-called “single-use plastics” has on the environment is propelling the market to search for new solutions, and requires initiatives to drive faster responses from the scientific community, the industry, and governmental bodies for the adoption and implementation of new ma...
Recyclability and redesign challenges in multilayer flexible food packaging - a...
Bauer, Anna-Sophia; Tacker, Manfred; Uysal-Unalan, Ilke; Cruz, Rui; Varzakas, Theo; Krauter, VictoriaMultilayer flexible food packaging is under pressure to redesign for recyclability. Most multilayer films are not sorted and recycled with the currently available infrastructure, which is based on mechanical recycling in most countries. Up to now, multilayer flexible food packaging was highly customizable. Diverse polymers and non-polymeric layers allowed a long product shelf-life and an optimized material effi...