Finding the sweet spot: a sustainability strategy and holistically sustainable packaging designs for Bertolli

Food packaging serves many functions, from product protection to extending product shelf life to enabling convenient or effective usage (i.e., portability, resealability) to communicating relevant information or brand image to consumers. However, packaging has various negative impacts on the environment throughout its life cycle. While consumers...

How to reduce packaging waste? Agent-Based Modelling of a circular food packaging ecosystem in the Netherlands

Reducing packaging waste is a pressing challenge requiring organisations to look beyond their own products, services and business models and take an ecosystem approach. Collaborative efforts in circular ecosystems offer a promising solution to tackle this issue. However, the impact of circular ecosystems on material flows in the packaging system...

Beyond a food container: Enhancing the relationship between ultra-processed sustainable food products and consumers through multisensory packaging experience

Consumers encounter many food choices in the supermarket, including ultra-processed food. Observing in the context and reflecting on the daily interactions, these products often present with product identities visually, and the food does not transparently show on the packaging. Consumers can see images of dishes, contextual visuals, labels,...

Robotic Packaging Optimization with Reinforcement Learning and Real-World Data

Intelligent manufacturing has become increasingly important in the food packaging industry due to the growing demand for enhanced productivity and flexibility while minimizing waste and lead times. This work explores the integration of such manufacturing in automated secondary robotic food packaging solutions that transfer food products into...

Sustainable product-package design in a food supply chain: A multi-criteria life cycle approach

This paper presents a multi-criteria decision-making approach for the selection of a sustainable product-package design, accounting for the different actors within a food supply chain. The study extends the focus of sustainable packaging design to the collective of all supply chain actors. Decision criteria are identified via a literature...

The Effects of Supply Chain Sustainability Criteria on Selecting the Optimal Package Design

In the packaging industry, there are certain criteria that characterize whether a package is sustainable or not. Thus, the design of the product is decided by satisfying the aforementioned criteria. However, when the whole supply chain is under study, the process is not so straightforward and the related science field is Sustainable Supply Chain...