Packaging Sustainability - The Role of Packaging in Reducing Food Waste
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2019) | Viewed by 46097
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable development; packaging life cycle assessment; packaging-related food waste; consumer behaviour with packaging and food waste and packaging recycling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in a Special Issue, "Packaging Sustainability—The Role of Packaging in Reducing Food Waste”. Due to a growing global population and increasing difficulties in producing food due to its associated environmental footprint and climate change consequences, the present challenges in securing food supply are expected to become more prominent in the future. The United Nations, as established in Goal 12.3, has set a goal to reduce by half the (currently) 1.3 gigatonnes of edible food wasted annually. This Special Issue focuses on the role of packaging in achieving this goal.
The scope covers broad topics, such as better packaging systems and logistics that reduce food loss and waste in the supply chain, packaging materials that increase shelf life, packaging design that reduces food waste by consumers, design processes, business models, and policies. Trans- and interdisciplinary approaches and points of view are especially welcome.
Estimates of the potential to reduce food waste and considerations of the environmental trade-off between investments in packaging and reduction of food waste will be given special attention. There are scarce data in this field, but some new evaluations or insights will strengthen the submission.
Analyses of obstacles for packaging improvements to reduce food waste, such as economic, legislative, and market, and suggestions for how to overcome or remove these obstacles are also welcome.
Assoc. Prof. Fredrik Wikström
Assoc. Prof. Helén WilliamsGuest Editors
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Keywords
- Food waste
- Packaging
- Agenda 2030
- Food LCA
- Packaging Sustainability
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