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2023
Sustainable food packaging: An updated definition following a holistic approach
Sustainable food packaging: An updated definition following a holistic approach
Dörnyei, Krisztina Rita Uysal-Unalan, Ilke Krauter, Victoria Weinrich, Ramona Incarnato, Loredana Karlovits, Igor Colelli, Giancarlo Chrysochou, Polymeros Fenech, Margaret Camilleri Pettersen, Marit Kvalvåg Arranz, Elena Marcos, Begonya Frigerio, Valeria Apicella, Annalisa Yildirim, Selçuk Poças, Fátima Dekker, Matthijs Johanna, Lahti Coma, Véronique Corredig, Milena
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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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Frontiers in sustainable food systems, 7 (2023), 1119052.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1119052.
ISSN: 2571-581X
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@article{Dörnyei2023,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16337},
doi = {10.3389/fsufs.2023.1119052},
author = {Dörnyei, Krisztina Rita and Uysal-Unalan, Ilke and Krauter, Victoria et al.},
title = {Sustainable food packaging: An updated definition following a holistic approach},
journal = {Frontiers in sustainable food systems},
year = {2023},
volume = {7},
}