The Quest For Environmentally Friendly Food Packaging

By Eloise Hewitt


Human beings highly value meals on daily basis. Human life thus stands at risk from unhealthy meals that are on the prowl. Environmentally friendly food packaging and the practice of good hygiene need to be adopted in order to curb the problem. To be considered are a variety of choices. However, pollution is a monster which has to be kept at bay when making such important choices.

Oxygen gas I the environment enables it to support lives of organisms. For a continued existence of humankind in centuries to come, adequate supply of this gas is more than mandatory. Our atmosphere faces untold danger posed by materials that are not degradable. Some of them, like plastics and glasses cannot be avoided but can be properly managed. Their management is necessary given their high potential to cause unrest if their quantities are not checked.

The dangers that they portend range from short term to long term ones. In the short term, children might play near the garbage heaps and get injured. Some might contain rotten particles that if inhaled by children prove being highly poisonous. On the long term, there is the possible risk of losing our vegetation cover to these non-disposable wastes. Also, the ozone layer might be depleted due to the fumes that are emitted when plastics are burnt.

This is thus the rationale behind the safe handling of edible materials. When wrapping them for sale it is good to consider the duration it might take before they are consumed. Those that will not take too long before being used need to be kept in a way that the wrapping material is not wasted. It is also good to use products made of paper as paper can easily be recycled.

There are some instances when materials like plastic and rubber cannot be avoided. In such circumstances, precaution needs to be taken so as not to overuse them. Every company should have a waste management policy that encourages the consumers of their goods to take back the wrappings for recycling. Incentives and other promotional goodies can work well in this direction.

Canned foods are normally kept for a long time in metallic or plastic containers. When opened and used, people tend to throw them away anyhow. This this should not be the case. Instead, proper strategies for disposal should be laid. The packages once used need to be disposed of safely. In most cases there are dust bins where such can be thrown and later picked the right authorities that will definitely know where to place them.

It is the air we breathe that determines how healthy we are. Dirt spoils the show and is therefore a nuisance. Preservatives commonly used release some gases. These gases are not pure given the chemicals that have been mixed with them. Their disposure thus require a high degree of professionalism. Quality assurance agencies have to go through all consumer products in order to ascertain their fitness for human consumption. Proper action is taken in case a violation is detected.

Modern manufacturers, in a bid to impress potential buyers, have engrossed themselves in extreme advertising. These adverts in most cases come with false information to lure the customers. In some instances they even go against the law in terms of the regulations for consumer products. This is an issue that requires vigilance on the side of law enforcement agencies.




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