Design of re-usable biomaterial packaging systems for the chilled meat and fish industry.

膨胀聚苯乙烯（EPS）是垃圾填埋场的重要贡献者，许多城市当局，如纽约，正在寻求禁止在食品包装中使用它。因此，寻找可行的EPS替代品是可持续食品工业面临的一个迅速增长的问题。本研究探讨了利用生物材料的物流包装系统的设计。这些可再生资源材料提供了更大的耐久性，可重复使用，易于堆肥和可回收性。分层或夹层生物材料系统特别适合改进包装设计解决方案，因为它们的特性（例如绝缘）可以高度定制，以适应食品工业不同部门的独特物流/用户和商业需求。此外，它们是创新的天然候选物，例如“扁平包装”，以帮助重复使用和回收。

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a significant contributor to landfill - to a point where many city authorities, such as New York, are seeking to ban it's use from food packaging. Finding viable alternatives to EPS is therefore a rapidly growing problem for a sustainable food industry.This study investigates the design of logistical packaging systems utilising biomaterials. These reneweable resource materials offer greater durability for re-use, ease of compostability and recyclability. Layered or sandwiched biomaterial systems are especially appropriate for improved packaging design solutions as their properties e.g. insulation, can be highly tailored to the unique logistical/user and commercial needs across different sectors of the food industry. In addition they are a natural candidate for innovation e.g 'flat-packing' to assist reuse and return.