A recent review in Processes presents various aspects of edible food packaging, focusing on single-use, fast-dissolving edible pouches. Plastic food packaging, typically non-biodegradable, is a ...

Efforts to reduce environmental impact are driving steady growth in the upcycled packaging materials market, according to a new report published by Market Research Future. The study finds that demand ...

It’s become increasingly difficult to ignore the impact waste and carbon emissions are having on the climate, from changing weather patterns to rising sea levels. While many countries across the globe ...

Today, economic development is impossible without packaging: it makes products convenient to use and recognizable, protects them from mechanical damage, and ensures their transportation. Increasingly, ...

Before you toss that food take-out container into the recycling bin with good intentions, you should know a surprising amount ...

Food insecurity is one of humanity’s most pressing challenges, impacting more than two billion people worldwide. Paradoxically, as so many suffer from lack of access to food, more than 30 per cent of ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Brazil produces around 7 million tons of plastic products a year, 44% of which are disposable and single-use plastics, common in food packaging; a significant amount of it ends up in one of Brazil’s 3 ...

BioSupPack has demonstrated that we can create a true circular economy by turning brewery waste into valuable packaging materials and by recycling the packaging waste through i ...

A focused beam of carbon dioxide laser light hits a sheet of uncoated paper. For a fraction of a second, the plant-based ...