Fighting food waste with better packaging

The debate on the role of packaging in fighting food waste intensifies and 4 recent publications add insights. Americans take notice of increasingly strained global food resources and Mintel reveals that 80% of US food shoppers agree that reducing food waste is as important as reducing packaging waste. The Economist reports that one-third of the American adults is not just overweight, but obese. Packaging may play a crucial role in this phenomenon as well. An 18-page study by ABN AMRO outlines the positive opportunities for supermarkets in addressing food waste in their corporate policy. In Belgium a project has started to reduce the amount of food waste via better packaging and logistics.
Click here for information on the Mintel study.
Click here to download article in The Economist (104 kB).
Click here to download the ABN AMRO report (4.2 MB, in Dutch).
Click here for information on the Belgian project (in Dutch).
Click here for information about the NVC Course Food packaging.

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