Towards Zero Plastic Packaging in Food Industry

迈向食品工业零塑料包装

• 批准号: 2900499
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2900499
• 关键词: Towards; Zero; Plastic; Packaging; Food

Plastic is polluting oceans, affecting human health, wildlife, and biodiversity. Unfortunately, it is still the most common materials used for packaging of food powders due to the fact it keeps a suitable atmosphere inside the package that is conducive to the preservation of the nutrients in the food and extends the shelf life. The high sensitivity of some types of food is challenging for the industry to reduce the plastic's amount used in packaging. These challenging difficulties requiring scientific and engineering research to deliver a new structure of the material and/or new manufacturing process which offers the opportunity to stop the need for plastic packaging.The aim of this project is to reduce/remove the need for using plastic packaging by first, increasing the shelf life and hence the stability of food powder, Coffee as an example, which will be investigated using different manufacturing approaches such as restructuring by granulation techniques and second by using sustainable packaging materials which will reduce the environmental foot print.The aim of the research program is to produce a step-change in our understanding of the manufacturing process, material science and product properties of the food powders and how this affects the subsequent behaviour.

塑料正在污染海洋，影响人类健康、野生动物和生物多样性。不幸的是，它仍然是用于包装食品粉末的最常见的材料，因为它在包装内保持了合适的气氛，有利于保存食品中的营养素并延长保质期。某些类型的食品的高敏感性对该行业来说是一个挑战，以减少包装中塑料的使用量。这些具有挑战性的困难需要科学和工程研究来提供一种新的材料结构和/或新的制造工艺，这为停止使用塑料包装提供了机会。该项目的目的是减少/消除对使用塑料包装的需求，首先，增加食品粉末的保质期，从而提高食品粉末的稳定性，咖啡为例，这将使用不同的制造方法进行研究，例如通过造粒技术进行重组，其次使用可持续的包装材料，这将减少环境足迹。研究计划的目的是在我们对制造过程的理解中产生一个步骤变化，食品粉末的材料科学和产品特性以及这如何影响随后的行为。