The Effect Of Food Packaging Material On The Environment
Abstract
The Effect Of Food Packaging Material On The Environment Food packaging is just one among ways of food preservation for when food is been packaged, it is set for shipment and marketing. Food Technologist who must have a good knowledge of technology materials, labour equipment, money research, engineering and management is in any food-processing establishment.
Particularly, food packages purposely protect the products from environment hazards throughout the period of the shelf life. Some industries can even be instituted purposely for food packaging. For these facts, every Food Technologist must acquire the knowledge of packaging principle and practice as to meet up with the specific requirement of food in order way to retain its quality, throughout the processing of storage and distribution and even specified the demands in which the food imposed on the packages. Though, it the sole responsibility of the specialist who can design and manufacture these packages. And because of that, the packages physically protect and maintain quality of the product, and it attracts the consumers and even be within an average at economic cost.
Conclusion
In summary, it is entirely consistent to recognize that packaging plays a valuable, often resource-conserving role in the modern distribution of food, beverages and other goods, and to maintain that a large and perhaps growing fraction of packaging is wasteful or environmentally problematical. The most popular specifications of the problem of packaging, based on (often inaccurate) projections of landfill capacity shortages and on the visible prevalence of litter, capture only secondary aspects of its environmental impacts. More serious is the use of natural resources and the emission of air and water pollution in the manufacturing process. For products or packages that can be made of only one material, recycled content is better for the environment, as is commonly believed.
The evaluation of packaging impacts is a more complex task when, as is typically the case, there is a choice of packaging materials. One type of plastic, PVC, stands out as the environmentally worst choice in both the U.S. and Mexico. PVC aside, detailed research on packaging in the U.S. shows that lighter-weight packages are generally better for the environment, even when weight reduction must be obtained at the expense of recyclability. More tentative research in Mexico suggests that reduction in pollution generated by electric power plants could be key to reducing the impact of manufacturing packaging materials—and that the health and environmental problems of landfill scavenging cannot be ignored.
