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    This document discusses the role that packaging, specifically flexible packaging, can play in reducing food waste. It notes that about one-third of the world's food is wasted and that food waste, if a country, would be the third largest contributor of greenhouse gases. Flexible packaging can help extend the shelf life of foods through technologies like modified atmosphere packaging, helping to reduce food waste. When packaging and food waste are properly disposed of through composting, it contributes to a circular economy and sustainable materials management by preventing emissions from landfills. The document advocates considering the full impacts of food production and the benefits packaging provides in order to appropriately address food waste as a policy issue.

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    This document discusses the role that packaging, specifically flexible packaging, can play in reducing food waste. It notes that about one-third of the world's food is wasted and that food waste, if a country, would be the third largest contributor of greenhouse gases. Flexible packaging can help extend the shelf life of foods through technologies like modified atmosphere packaging, helping to reduce food waste. When packaging and food waste are properly disposed of through composting, it contributes to a circular economy and sustainable materials management by preventing emissions from landfills. The document advocates considering the full impacts of food production and the benefits packaging provides in order to appropriately address food waste as a policy issue.

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    This document discusses the role that packaging, specifically flexible packaging, can play in reducing food waste. It notes that about one-third of the world's food is wasted and that food waste, if a country, would be the third largest contributor of greenhouse gases. Flexible packaging can help extend the shelf life of foods through technologies like modified atmosphere packaging, helping to reduce food waste. When packaging and food waste are properly disposed of through composting, it contributes to a circular economy and sustainable materials management by preventing emissions from landfills. The document advocates considering the full impacts of food production and the benefits packaging provides in order to appropriately address food waste as a policy issue.

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    Zero Food Waste Flexible Packaging

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    Izabela Celejewska
    This document discusses the role that packaging, specifically flexible packaging, can play in reducing food waste. It notes that about one-third of the world's food is wasted and that food waste, if a country, would be the third largest contributor of greenhouse gases. Flexible packaging can help extend the shelf life of foods through technologies like modified atmosphere packaging, helping to reduce food waste. When packaging and food waste are properly disposed of through composting, it contributes to a circular economy and sustainable materials management by preventing emissions from landfills. The document advocates considering the full impacts of food production and the benefits packaging provides in order to appropriately address food waste as a policy issue.

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    ELPLAST GROUP

    A PREMIERE GLOBAL
    SUPPLIER OF ZIPPER
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    One of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions
    is emission of landfill methane resulting from rotting food
    waste.
    Global food waste, if it were a country, would be the third
    largest contributor to greenhouses gases, behind only
    China and the U.S.
    Studies from the United Nations have cited that about one-
    third of all food produced for human consumption is
    wasted.
    Many governments, including the U.S. have set goals to
    reduce food waste over the next decade. The EPA, for
    instance, has established a goal to reduce food waste by
    50% (from a 2015 baseline) by 2030 through voluntary
    programs.

    How packaging can play


    an important role in reducing food waste?

    By extending the shelf life


    providing convenience features,
    using technologies such as:
    modified atmosphere packaging (MAP)
    active packaging
    freshness indicators.

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    Refrigerated Shelf Life (days)

    Fresh Food Category Non - MAP MAP

    Lettuce 2-4 14

    Fresh red meat 2-3 21

    Fresh pasta 3 60

    Cheese 7 180

    When analyzing how consumers perceive waste, it is


    noticeable that consumers only see the packaging waste at
    the end of product use, but do not consider the impact of
    cultivation, water, land, and transportation energy that is
    required to bring food products to their plate.

    The Sustainable Packaging Coalition says, “The rule of


    thumb for a packaged food product is that packaging
    comprises around 10% of the overall carbon footprint” for
    many products. Consumers tend to believe that packaging
    has a much larger impact on a products overall carbon
    impact than the product, whereas in most cases packaging
    tends to have a much smaller impact.

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    Packaging can play a positive role when the entire food
    system is taken into account. Packaging, and certainly
    flexible packaging, can have a dramatic impact on overall
    waste and subsequent carbon impact when overall food
    waste is considered.
    When packaging and food waste are composted, they are
    part of CE (circular economy). When packaging helps to
    extend shelf life and reduce overall food waste they are
    enabling SMM (sustainable materials Management)

    As food waste becomes a large policy focus, it will be


    important to consider the contributions and benefits
    resulting from appropriate packaging technologies.

    Choose flexible
    packaging IN

    A Holistic View of the Role of Flexible Packaging in a Sustainable World


    By Todd Bukowski and Michael Richmon

    www.elplasteurope.com
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    COOPERATE

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