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Compostable Future:

Eco-friendly

Food Packaging Trends

and Development

As the majority of consumers (73%, according to Nielsen) are willing to change
their purchasing habits to minimize their environmental impact, it is now important
for food and beverage manufacturers of all sizes to quickly integrate sustainability
into their packaging.

Almost the entire planet wishes to go green, and businesses discovered that many brands prefer stainless steel, silicone, glass, and
should follow suit. Consider these four trends if your company is robust plastic.
looking for distinctive packaging with more sustainable materials:
• Home Compostable Food Packaging Food and Beverage Packaging Development:
Compostable food packaging is intended to be a more Compostable Future
environmentally friendly option. It is frequently praised as a non- As previously stated, composting is most likely the best and most in-demand
toxic, alternative food packaging that reduces plastic pollution by method in our food and beverage industry. Many developers are now
decomposing into soil when released into the environment. Home creating new material blends to ensure things like cup lids, cutlery, and
composting, on the other hand, takes much longer (typically about trending single-use products like coffee pods degrade at a much faster
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a year) and requires much lower temperatures than industrial rate (hopefully as quickly as an orange peel) so that they can be turned
composting. If your brand wants to use packaging that users can into home compostable food waste and customers can easily recycle them
compost at home, you should look for a packaging product that in their own backyard compost heaps rather than dumping them in landfills
credible certifiers have validated. or sending them to industrial composting infrastructure, which most cities
• Biodegradable Food Packaging still lack. As a result of that, in the twinkling of an eye, we will soon see an
Biodegradable packaging is made of biopolymers, which are increase in the number of packaging labeled as “home compostable” on
molecules found in living organisms such as cellulose and proteins. store shelves everywhere.
As a result, it can be organically broken down (primarily by
microbes) and converted into biomass, gas, or water. However,
the term can be interpreted broadly, and manufacturers do not
always provide timeframes for degradation. This could imply that More Information Service Info C015
their packaging products will still take years to degrade and are
not as environmentally friendly as you believe, particularly if they
degrade into micro-plastic rather than biomass.
• Recyclable Food Packaging ข้้อมููลเพิ่่�มูเติ่มู / Additional Information
Recyclable food packaging can help reduce waste disposal 1 Greiner Packaging International GmbH, ผู้้�ผู้ลิิตบรรจุุภััณฑ์์พลิาสติกชั้ั�นนำาของยุุโรปสำาหรับ
while also protecting natural resources. Because they can be อุตสาหกรรมอาหารแลิะผู้ลิิตภััณฑ์์ที่่�ไม่ใชั้่อาหาร
converted back into raw resources and reused, many people Greiner Packaging International GmbH, a leading European producer of plastic
packaging for the food and non-food industries.
consider recyclable packaging to be better than biodegradable
but less desirable than compostable materials when it comes to เอกสารอ้างอ่ง / References
https://nielseniq.com/global/en/insights/analysis/2019/a-natural-rise-in-sustainability-
eco-friendly food packaging options. Currently, the most recyclable around-the-world/
food packaging materials are paper (or cardboard), aluminum, https://www.unleashedsoftware.com/blog/eco-friendly-food-packaging-8-trends-in-food-
bev-explained
glass, and plastics such as PET and polypropylene. https://www.packaginginsights.com/key-trends.html
• Reusable Food Packaging https://www.packaginginsights.com/key-trends/orfito/trend-pushing-packaging-2022.
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Another advantageous option is to reuse food packaging in https://www.packaginginsights.com/key-trends/skanemejerier/trend-pushing-packaging-2022.
its original form to keep it from the waste cycle. However, in order html
https://www.packaginginsights.com/key-trends/soaring-free/biodegradable-packaging.
to be reusable, a package must be sufficiently strong, and we html

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