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Key Industry Players to Discuss Sustainability in Food Packaging at MeetingPack 2019

On 29 and 30 May, MeetingPack2019 will present the cutting-edge solutions in sustainable plastic packaging for food and beverages.

31 May 2019

Compostable Food Containers Could Release PFAS into Environment

Compostable food containers seem like a great idea: They degrade into nutrient-rich organic matter, reducing waste and the need for chemical fertilizers.

31 May 2019

New Study Shows Home-Delivered Meal Kits are Greener than Formerly Believed

Meal kit services, which provide a box of pre-portioned ingredients and a chef-selected recipe to one’s door, are massively popular but get a bad environmental rap because of perceived packaging waste.

23 Apr 2019

RIT Scientists Developing Advanced Solutions to Minimize Food Waste

Scientists at RIT are busy when it comes to identifying creative and new ways to lessen food waste.

13 Nov 2018

Wood-Based Protein Could Help Address Global Food Challenge

At present, sawdust is treated as special waste by some sawmills, as it cannot be put to good use. In fact, increasing amounts of sawdust piles can even affect production.

12 Sep 2017

Solar Powered Water Harvester Can Draw Out Liters of Water from Desert Air

Researchers form UC Berkeley have demonstrated a water harvester device that is capable of pulling liters of water out of the air in desert like conditions. Whats better is that is powered directly from the sun.

14 Apr 2017

Scientists Ascertain Critical Impact of Climate Change on Specific Areas of Marine Biodiversity

An innovative study with the main focus of identifying oceanic areas that come under highest conservation priority in the world has discovered six “hot spots of marine biodiversity” critically affected due to fishing pressures as well as climate change.

23 Feb 2017

Plastic Packaging Preserves Food and May Help Prevent Food Waste

These days, grocery stores contain aisle after aisle of products encased in plastic packaging. This practice preserves food and might help prevent food waste, but does the environmental cost justify it? The cover story of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, looks into the matter.

20 Oct 2016

New Discovery Contradicts Widely Accepted Hypothesis About How Climate Change Will Affect Food Production

An eight-year study of soybeans grown outdoors in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere like that expected by 2050 has yielded a new and worrisome finding: Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations will boost plant growth under ideal growing conditions, but drought – expected to worsen as the climate warms and rainfall patterns change – will outweigh those benefits and cause yield losses much sooner than anticipated.

6 Sep 2016

Exposure to Chemicals and Environment Inevitable

The well-known documentary "Plastic Planet" by Werner Boote starkly illustrates the dangers of plastic and synthetics for human beings and also shows how ubiquitous plastic is. Motivated by this multiple award-winning film, a family of five from Styria completely avoided plastics in their home environment for several months.

15 Jul 2016