Food to Save Food: Exploiting Food Wastes and Byproducts to Fabricate Food Packaging
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2021) | Viewed by 2511
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymers; bioplastics; biodegradability; circular economy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: polyesters; cutin; self-assembly; atomic force microscopy; polymers; food packaging
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: bio-based polymers; bioplastics; plant cuticle; agro-wastes; sustainability; food packaging
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing population of our planet needs more productive farming systems. In this sense, a high increase of wastes and byproducts is expected during pre- and postharvesting agriculture activities and food processing. In fact, the current volume of non-edible plant residues from crops (mainly cereals, starchy roots, fruits, and other vegetables) is ca. 250 million tons per year. Most of them are generally disposed in landfills or, depending on the national legislation, directly burned. However, such wastes and byproducts are rich in biopolymers (e.g., polysaccharides, proteins, lignin, suberin, cutin) and bioactive molecules (for instance, polyphenols) that can be potentially exploited, after the adequate treatment, for different uses. In the context of a circular bioeconomy, they can be employed for the fabrication of food packaging materials as a sustainable alternative to non-biodegradable petroleum-based plastics.
In this Special Issue, we aim to publish original works and reviews about processes and technologies for the fabrication of food packaging materials from food wastes and byproducts.
Dr. Susana Guzmán-Puyol
Dr. José Jesús Benítez
Dr. José Alejandro Heredia-Guerrero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food wastes
- food byproducts
- food packaging
- circular bioeconomy
- sustainability
