Agricultural Products and Packaging Materials

Food packaging--roles, materials, and environmental issues.

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to update readers on food packaging and its impact on the environment.

Sterilization and Aseptic Packaging of Milk Products

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DEMAND ESTIMATES FOR AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PRODUCTS

Biopolymer-based Lightweight Materials for Packaging Applications

This chapter offers an overview of the biopolymer-based lightweight materials with respect to their potential for packaging applications. The biopolymer-based materials have garnered increasing attention to packaging market due to the concerns from both environmental and economical perspectives of traditional petroleum based polymers in recent years. The largely use of these traditional synthet...

Compostability of bioplastic packaging materials: an overview.

Packaging waste accounted for 78.81 million tons or 31.6% of the total municipal solid waste (MSW) in 2003 in the USA, 56.3 million tons or 25% of the MSW in 2005 in Europe, and 3.3 million tons or 10% of the MSW in 2004 in Australia. Currently, in the USA the dominant method of packaging waste disposal is landfill, followed by recycling, incineration, and composting. Since landfill occupies va...