Towards more sustainable packaging with biodegradable materials! The combination of the
continuously increasing food packaging waste with the non-biodegradable nature of the plastic
materials that have a big slice of the packaging market makes it necessary to move towards
sustainable packaging for the benefit of the environment and human health. Sustainable
packaging is the type of packaging that can provide to food the necessary protection conditions
but at the same type is biodegradable and can be disposed as organic waste to the landfills in
order to biodegrade through a natural procedure. In this way sustainable packaging becomes
part of the circular economy. Sustainable Food Packaging Technology deals with packaging
solutions that use engineered biopolymers or biocomposites that have suitable physicochemical
properties for food contact and protection and originate both from renewable or non-renewable
resources but in both cases are compostable or edible. Modified paper and cardboard with
increased protective properties towards food while keeping their compostability are presented
as well. The book also covers natural components that can make the packaging functional e.g.
by providing active protection to the food indicating food spoilage. * Addresses urgent
problems: food packaging creates a lot of hard-to-recycle waste - this book puts forward more
sustainable solutions using biodegradable materials * State-of-the-art: Sustainable Food
Packaging Technology provides knowledge on new developments in functional packaging * From lab
to large-scale applications: expert authors report on the technology aspects of sustainable
packaging
