Abstract
SummaryThoroughly considering and optimizing packaging systems can avoid food loss and waste. We suggest a number of issues that must be explored and review the associated challenges. Five main issues were recognized through the extensive experience of the authors and engagement of multiple stakeholders. The issues promoted are classified as follows: (1) identify and obtain specific data of packaging functions that influence food waste; (2) understand the total environmental burden of product/package by considering the trade‐off between product protection and preservation and environmental footprint; (3) develop understanding of how these functions should be treated in environmental footprint evaluations; (4) improve packaging design processes to also consider reducing food waste; and (5) analyze stakeholder incentives to reduce food loss and waste. Packaging measures that save food will be important to fulfill the United Nations Sustainable Development goal to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and to reduce food losses along production and supply chains.
Highlights
A Research Agenda for 2030Fredrik Wikstrom ,1 Karli Verghese, Rafael Auras, Annika Olsson, Helen Williams, Renee Wever, Kaisa Gronman, Marit Kvalvag Pettersen, Hanne Møller, and Risto Soukka
In a world with increasing distance in space and time between the farm and the consumer, packaging systems are a necessity to facilitate the protection, transport, and storage of food products
We propose that packaging functions that influence food loss and waste (FLW) should be acknowledged in any environmental assessment of food products that aims to provide advice for packaging development
Summary
Fredrik Wikstrom ,1 Karli Verghese, Rafael Auras, Annika Olsson, Helen Williams, Renee Wever, Kaisa Gronman, Marit Kvalvag Pettersen, Hanne Møller, and Risto Soukka.
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