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ECO-DESIGN OF PACKAGING: A CHALLENGE FOR THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF FOOD

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Introduction. Packaging is an active partner for the conservation and distribution of foods. Its main functions are transport, communication with the customer, protection of food against chemical, physical, and microbial contamination. The packaging system for a given products has different components which are i) primary packaging, i.e. the material directly in contact with the food, ii) secondary packaging, e.g. boxes containing several consumer units, and iii) tertiary or transport packaging, which includes larger transport boxes, pallets, cling films, containers, etc. Plastics are the main material used in packaging and represent roughly one third of the mass of the packaging system. Faced with the plastic pollution of the environment, which is largely caused by single use plastics, improvements in the packaging system to decrease its environmental impact are necessary. Recent legislations in the EU aim directly at the decrease, and even interdiction, of single use plastics (SUP directive EU 2019/904). Because packaging is a facilitator of the supply chain, in has both, direct and indirect, environmental impacts. Direct impacts are caused by the fabrication and disposal of the materials in themselves, while indirect impacts are caused by food loss, inefficient logistics, design problems, etc. (1).
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hal-03887525 , version 1 (06-12-2022)

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Sandra Domenek. ECO-DESIGN OF PACKAGING: A CHALLENGE FOR THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF FOOD. CEIAL VIII Ecuadorian Congress on Food Engineering, Nov 2022, Guyaquil, Ecuador. ⟨hal-03887525⟩
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