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    Pakistan's food industry produces large amounts of plastic packaging waste that pollutes the environment. Researchers at the University of Burnel London developed an alternative called "Bio peel" made from dehydrated orange peel, vegetable glycerin, and starches. Bio peel is a biodegradable packaging material that helps tackle both waste management and plastic pollution issues affecting the food industry. It utilizes agricultural byproducts and returns energy to the environment after degradation. However, further development is still needed to improve its commercial viability.

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    Pakistan's food industry produces large amounts of plastic packaging waste that pollutes the environment. Researchers at the University of Burnel London developed an alternative called "Bio peel" made from dehydrated orange peel, vegetable glycerin, and starches. Bio peel is a biodegradable packaging material that helps tackle both waste management and plastic pollution issues affecting the food industry. It utilizes agricultural byproducts and returns energy to the environment after degradation. However, further development is still needed to improve its commercial viability.

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    Pakistan's food industry produces large amounts of plastic packaging waste that pollutes the environment. Researchers at the University of Burnel London developed an alternative called "Bio peel" made from dehydrated orange peel, vegetable glycerin, and starches. Bio peel is a biodegradable packaging material that helps tackle both waste management and plastic pollution issues affecting the food industry. It utilizes agricultural byproducts and returns energy to the environment after degradation. However, further development is still needed to improve its commercial viability.

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    Pakistan's food industry produces large amounts of plastic packaging waste that pollutes the environment. Researchers at the University of Burnel London developed an alternative called "Bio peel" made from dehydrated orange peel, vegetable glycerin, and starches. Bio peel is a biodegradable packaging material that helps tackle both waste management and plastic pollution issues affecting the food industry. It utilizes agricultural byproducts and returns energy to the environment after degradation. However, further development is still needed to improve its commercial viability.

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    Bio peel Packaging ;Innovation in Food Packaging

    Industry

    Photo courtesy by Burnel University

    Food being basic necessity of man ranges from simple to lavish ones. As era passes the
    demand of the man (consumer) changes. He demanded food with acceptable
    presentation in terms of color,texture,taste and obviously the package of food. Packages
    are necessary for the product to retain maximum stability in the shelves. Food package
    also serves as the barrier to harsh environmental conditions. These all conditions lead
    to the emerge of new food industry known as food packaging industry. Firstly, the industry
    was the need now it is the demand of consumer. Food with attractive packages are sold
    instantly .
    Anyhow ,food in package is consumed and the final fate of package is not determined by
    its manufacturer and the consumer did not care about it. Most of consumer did not try to
    bin it they only throw it anywhere.
    These packages are made of polyethene which are not degradable even after decades
    causing lot of pollution everywhere i.e. in oceans causing trouble to marine life ,in lands
    and even in air if someone try to incinerate them causing evolution of chemicals in air .
    This is main environmental concern today in most of developing as well as in developed
    world . The only solution to this problem is degradable packaging, in my opinion that may
    solve the issue of pollution and manage waste to some extent . In the case of food
    package we do not take risk that we cannot use any type of degradable material because
    we don’t want to introduce any kind of contamination as well as try best to maintain all the
    sensory characters of food. In this regard only some researchers do researches to find
    best possible degradable material . Anyhow, research data is limited but in my opinion
    biodegradable materials are best .

    Pakistan’s food industry is one of the world’s Largest market in terms of production.
    The main problem of the industry today is to manage waste and to reduce plastic
    pollution which is in the form of polythene packaging. Researchers in the UNIVERSITY
    OF BURNEL LONDON developed biodegradable packaging. That may help to tackle
    with both issues.
    Bio peel is dehydrated orange peel made with biopolymers such as vegetable glycerin
    ,corn starch, potato starch and water. After mixing it is hardened by the process of drying
    ,baking, and molding.
    Reason for choosing orange peel
    The idea came into process in order to utilize the masses of waste produced from orange
    juice manufacturing industry. Firstly idea was to convert all the waste produced after
    extracting one liter of juice into the carton but the material steadily degraded itself in water
    and product was at high risk of damage during transportation
    The mixing of vegetable glycerin with citrus waste gives it tensile strength and drastically
    increasing the compressibility of material. After mixing the final product look like pie crust.
    It’s intended use is in farmers market take away rather than grocery Market.
    The beauty of bio peel is that it utilizes two waste products that is citrus waste and
    vegetable glycerin from biodiesel production. This provide single use packaging and can
    give the energy used to make packaging back to environment after degradation. Other
    methods for giving energy back to environment by composting or through using it for
    animal feed.
    It gives energy back to environment as it is degradable.
    Unfortunately it is heavier than plastic and may be visually not appealing to consumer.
    However innovation needs further development to make it commercially feasible and also
    act as remainder that solution to food industry problems can be found everywhere -even
    in waste .

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