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Old bottles and food packaging used to make railway sleepers
Sleepers, which hold up rails and keep them the correct distance apart, are normally manufactured from concrete or wood.
Surprising Ways Fast Food Packaging Harms Your Health
While US manufacturers have stopped using perchlorate and PFCs in food packaging, many fast foods are still using hazardous chemicals in their boxes and wrappers.
What Are The Colored Circles on Food Packages?
There's a lot of information crammed onto food packaging these days, and along with all of the helpful stuff (like nutritional data and ingredients), there's also the mysterious, multicolored row of circles or squares that serves a very important purpose ... for the printer.
Food packaging design tips
Now that you’ve produced a delicious food product, it’s time to begin thinking about how you will package your product to help attract consumers.
How to Use and Repurpose Food Packaging Containers
Sure, you could toss this stuff into the recycling bin and still be doing a good deed. It didn’t end up in a landfill, right? But what if you were able to accomplish even more by not disposing of i…
Tasteful Design: How Food Packaging Impacts Flavor
We don’t need to know terms like “multi-sensory integration,” “auditory cue modification” or “olfactory receptors” to get by in our daily lives. Most of us are more focused on not walking into a light post while texting. Yet, the new frontier of food packaging is being forged by researchers who throw around (and understand) terms
3 Ideas Shaking up The World of Food Packaging
Packages that tell the whole truth, extending shelf life and the truth behind "biodegradable"
How sustainable is the food packaging industry?
More consumers are seeking products that are completely eco-friendly, but there are still many barriers on the design and manufacturing side.
How to Safely Reuse Food Packaging
Wasteful packaging is an inescapable part of drawing breath in a capitalist society but, for a variety of reasons, most people can’t alter their food choices based solely on the materials that contain it. This is why I reuse food packaging whenever I can: sure, it cuts down on waste, but I also get to stock up on storage containers for free.
What Are Clamshells? Food Packaging And Beyond
When it comes to packaging, clamshells are not found at the beach. Clamshell packaging are clear plastic containers used in food packaging.
Lightweighting leads food packaging trends
Consumer demand for sustainability and a desire to conserve cost is helping drive the food industry’s ever-increasing interest in lightening up its packaging.
How Robotics Beef Up Food Packaging Automation
The number one operational improvement in the crosshairs of consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the food sector remains automation, particularly robotics
How a Food Packaging Company is Changing the Industry for the Better
Sambrailo created a new packaging brand called ReadyCycle, a corrugated cardboard with no waxes or coatings that is designed for the existing cardboard recycling stream.
When it comes to food packaging, what we don’t know could hurt us
Recent analyses raise disturbing questions about the health and environmental effects of the stuff that encases our edibles.
Food Packaging Design Tips and Why Product Packaging Is Important
Poor packaging design can ruin our eatiing experience. Whether your hot soup arrives cold, your cold sushi arrives warm, or the packaging is just an unattractive mess, the wrong packaging makes a meal less appetizing. Let's take a closer look at why product packaging is important and how you can improve your own packaging to stand out in a crowded marketplace.
These amazing food packaging ideas could massively reduce landfill
Food packaging of the future might crack like an egg or peel like an orange AND decompose much more quickly than plastic
Why the FDA Is Considering a 'Healthy' Icon for Food Packaging
The agency wants to update food packaging rules so that such labeling is based on scientific evidence.
Food Packaging: What Is IQF? Uses And Applications
IQF stands for individually quick frozen. The technology is used to provide superior and faster food freezing applications. Foods frozen with IQF retain a higher quality.
How To Gas Flush Pouches For Food Packaging
You have researched modified atmosphere packaging and you want to know more about gas flushing pouches for food packaging applications. Where do you start?
Researchers reveal how the colour of food packaging is tricking you
Light-coloured packaging might trick you into thinking certain food products are healthier, but according to a new study from Kiel University, it can also cause you to assume the food tastes bad.
What Will Food Packaging Look Like in Five to 10 Years?
Read more from Slate’s special issue on the future of food. Packaging buffs love to talk about popcorn, which they say proves the notion that a product ...
