Balancing sustainability and food safety, this article explores advancements in packaging materials that extend shelf life and minimize environmental impact.

In today''s globalized and highly competitive food industry, packaging is no longer a secondary process added at the end of ...

Six empty brown paper fry boats arranged next to each other in a grid formation. Credit: William Ludwig/C&EN/Getty In the 1960s, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the company that popularized ...

Approximately 60% of all plastics produced worldwide are used for food packaging (1). That means that of the 380 million metric tons of plastics produced in 2015, 228 million metric tons were food ...

When 2025 began, packaging experts agreed that the number one trend in their industry this year would be sustainable materials, ranging from biodegradable and compostable packaging to eco-friendly ...

Food packaging remains one of the key bottlenecks in the development of a sustainable food system. Ascertaining which food packaging material is the most sustainable is difficult, given the many ways ...

In 1938, a 27-year-old chemist named Roy Plunkett stumbled across a new type of chemical, one with a bond so strong it would end up sticking around long after he died—in fact, almost forever. Today, ...