Sustainable food packaging: An updated definition following a holistic approach

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Sustainable Food Systems

Fátima Poças¹  Ramona Weinrich²  Valeria Frigerio³  Milena Corredig⁴  Ilke Uysal-Unalan⁴  Annalisa Apicella⁵  Loredana Incarnato⁵  Polymeros Chrysochou⁶  Elena Arranz⁷  Igor Karlovits⁸  Giancarlo Colelli⁹  Matthijs Dekker^1,10  Begonya Marcos^1,11  Margaret Camilleri Fenech^1,12  Selçuk Yildirim^1,13  Krisztina Rita Dörnyei^1,14  Véronique Coma^1,15  Marit Kvalvåg Pettersen^1,16  Victoria Krauter^1,17  Lahti Johanna^1,18 

[1] Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Laboratório Associado, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal;Department of Consumer Behaviour in the Bioeconomy, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany;Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy;Department of Food Science, CiFood, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy;Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Department of Print and Packaging, Pulp and Paper Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of the Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy;Food Quality and Design Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands;Food Quality and Technology, IRTA, Food Quality and Technology, Monells, Spain;Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, University of Malta, Msida, Malta;Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland;Institute of Marketing, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary;LCPO-UMR5629, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, INP/ENSCPB, Pessac, France;Nofima AS, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, Tromsø, Norway;Section Packaging and Resource Management, University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria;Sustainable Materials and Products, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland;

关键词: food;    packaging;    definition;    sustainable;    holistic;    eco-friendly packaging;    circular;    challenges;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fsufs.2023.1119052

 received in 2022-12-08, accepted in 2023-03-31,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Food 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 for sustainable food packaging made by all stakeholders in the value chain: producers, distributors, practitioners and consumers. Therefore, this work aims first at giving a state-of-the-art overview of sustainable food packaging terms (38 similar terms were identified and grouped into four clusters: Sustainable, Circular, Bio and Other sustainable packaging) and definitions using systematic (narrative) review analysis and ‘controlled expert opinion feedback’ methodology. Second, it aims to offer an updated definition for sustainable food packaging, which is also specific to food packaging and be simple, coherent, easily understandable, and communicable to everybody. The applied holistic approach intends to include all aspects of the food-packaging unit, to consider food safety and packaging functionality, while taking into account different disciplines and challenges related to food packaging along the supply chain. Being a balancing act, a sustainable food packaging may not be a perfect solution, but contextual, suboptimal and in need of constant validation.

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