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AIP announces inaugural Save Food Packaging Awards for ANZ

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) has launched the inaugural Save Food Packaging Awards for Australia and New Zealand.

Developed in conjunction with the World Packaging Organisation (WPO), the Save Food Packaging Awards are designed to recognise companies who are developing innovative and sustainable packaging that minimises food losses and food waste, extends shelf life and improves the supply of food.

 “A key component of the Save Food Packaging Awards is to raise the profile of the critical role of packaging to reduce food waste and therefore reduce product’s overall environmental impact. It is time that packaging technologists are designing packaging to save food,” commented award chairman Mr Pierre Pienaar FAIP, CPP.

“Avoiding food waste is a critical packaging issue and one that food producers, manufacturers, brand owners, retailers and consumers need to better understand. Whilst the primary function of packaging is to protect the content, the function of packaging to reduce food waste is rarely discussed.

“The connection between packaging design and food waste needs to be discussed more openly in the industry. From field to fork there are a number of possibilities for food loss and waste to occur. It has been approximated that up to 50% of the edible food produced, does not reach the fork.”

“Avoiding and preventing food loss and waste can considerably limit the scope of additional resource requirements because approximately 30% of the food that is currently lost and wasted would already be sufficient to feed the starving world population.

“About 1.3 billion tons of food is actually thrown away each year, either because it spoils due to incorrect storage, inappropriate transport methods or it no longer meets the standards of the trade and consumers. In addition, a lot of food is not eaten by consumers because, for example, the quantities purchased by them are too large.”

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