There is an increasing awareness of the need to develop innovative packaging materials that maintain or extend the shelf life of foodstuffs to reduce food waste and minimize the environmental footprint of packaging materials.
The ideal packaging involves lower carbon and water footprints, is biodegradable and/or compostable, makes use of wastes or by-products, is properly eco-designed, safe and has the right preservation properties to minimize food waste.
YPACK, a 3-year EU-funded project will use a holistic approach and methodology involving different knowledge areas to produce the appropriate packaging solution:
- Development of packaging solutions (Production of PHBV layers, compounding, prototyping, Industrial Validation)
- Product Validation (Quality / Shelf life)
- Social approach (Customer profiling, Dissemination, Policies & Regulatory)
- Market Assessment (Business study and Risk assessment)
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