The joint work is aimed at meeting different packaging uses by providing customisable levels of barrier performance.

Food packaging materials are critical in preserving product quality, extending shelf-life and ensuring safety, while concurrently addressing environmental concerns. Conventional packaging is dominated ...

If relevant stakeholders – from government to industry and consumers – play their part, recyclability can be improved and plastic pollution eliminated, believes NGO WRAP. Of the 141m tonnes of plastic ...

UPM Specialty Materials and Felix Schoeller have developed a customizable recyclable barrier solution designed for flexible ...

A team of scientists has developed a 'smart' food packaging material that is biodegradable, sustainable and kills microbes that are harmful to humans. It could also extend the shelf-life of fresh ...

The water-proof food packaging is made from a type of corn protein called zein, starch and other naturally derived biopolymers, infused with a cocktail of natural antimicrobial compounds (see video).

The water-proof food packaging is made from a type of corn protein called zein, starch and other naturally derived biopolymers, infused with a cocktail of natural antimicrobial compounds (see video).

A team of scientists has developed biodegradable food packaging made from corn protein and other naturally-derived bioplymers infused with a mixture of natural antimicrobial oils that can extend the ...

Food packaging has a number of key roles. Firstly, it aims to keep food safe from its environment, so it doesn’t get dirty or contaminated. Secondly, it makes it more convenient to transport. Thirdly, ...

Food packaging is designed to protect freshness and extend shelf life, but not all packaging materials are safe. Some contain toxic chemicals that can leach into food, especially when exposed to heat, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...