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Overview of clams packaging systems sustainability
Carneiro, A.; Goes, C. B.; Mota, I.; Ferreira, R.; Cruz, A.; Marcos, Begonya; Sivertsvik, M.; Poças, F.Background: This work analyses the protection requirements and options for primary and transportation packaging of shellfish. It considers the properties of materials and the most recent developments and innovations in the arena created by legislation shaping packaging practices and frameworks of circularity and sustainability. A short review of the environmental profiles of typical packaging systems is provide...
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...
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...