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Packaging Innovation
Saving Food Around the Globe
Jeff Wooster, Global Sustainability Director
Packaging and Specialty Plastics
Dow.com
Food Loss & Waste (FLW)
Globally, there are 2 very different issues
regarding non-edibles:
Loss – When food is not delivered to its intended
recipients; occurs at the beginning to
middle of the supply chain
Waste – When food is delivered to its intended
recipients, but not consumed; occur at the
end of the supply chain
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Food Loss & Waste (FLW)
Globally, there are 2 very different issues regarding non-edibles:
Developing Countries – Food Loss is the Problem
• Over 40% of losses at post harvest handling & processing.
Developed Countries – Food Waste is the Problem
• Over 40% of losses at retail and consumer levels.
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Per Capita Food Loss & Waste (FLW) by Region
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Value of Food Packaging Around the Globe
“Appropriate packaging helps to reduce
FLW at any stage in the food supply chain:”
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Ensures food security and safety
Facilitates economic development & trade
Enhances export competitiveness
Enhances food loss prevention and protection
Enhances logistics management and product
identification
• Provides extended shelf-life for consumers
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Example: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Problem:
There are two kinds of losses that put rice to waste:
physical and quality. Physical losses in Asia, Latin
America, the Caribbean, and Africa reach up to 30%,
while reduced quality decreases the price of milled rice
by 10-30%.
These losses put farmers on the losing end in terms
of income, and negatively affect the supply of rice
in the market.
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Example: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Solution:
An airtight, reusable plastic bag that protects stored
rice from moisture, pests, rats, and keeps rice seeds
viable. The IRRI Superbag is now available to
Filipino farmers in selected retails stores.
The IRRI Super Bag works by blocking the flow of both
oxygen and water vapor from the outside to the grain.
When the bag is properly sealed, farmers can safely
store their seeds for 9-12 months without reducing germination rates.
IRRI Super Bags also keep away insects and rats without using chemicals.
Whole rice grain recovery after milling is 10-15%.
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Example: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Value of the Savings for the Philippines:
• 485,000 hectares of land (1850 sq. miles)
• 3.3 billion m3 of water/year
• 82,500 metric tonnes of methane/year,
equivalent to 2.1 million metric tonnes of CO2*
*As a GHG, the IPCC states that methane is about 25 times more potent than CO2 .
Sources: FAO, UNESCO-IHE, IPCC
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Example: Bone-In Ham Packaging
21 g of packaging protects 3.6 kg of meat.
Bone punctures caused rework and
packaging failures. 70% of bone punctures
occurred during retail display.
Addition of 25% more packaging (a small
patch) reduced damage during retail display
by 73%.
The result was a net reduction in total
carbon footprint across the supply chain of
nearly 6%.
Source: Ron Cotterman, Sealed Air: How Packaging
Prevents Waste and Enhances Sustainability, 2011
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Packaging Helps Save Food
• Food loss in developing countries tends to occur during
post-harvest processing and storage while in developed
countries food waste tends to occur after food is shipped to
consumers
• Packaging can significantly help save food by increasing
food security, safety, protection, logistics management and
product identification. Packaging can offer leak resistance,
tear resistance, hermetic seals, and modified atmosphere
for extended shelf-life.
• The significant economic, social and environmental value
provided by these packaging opportunities far outweigh the
related costs of development, production, and use.
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Speaker Contact Information
Jeff Wooster
Phone: +1.281.966.4239
Mobile: +1.281.796.0307
Email: [email protected]
Mailing Address:
1254 Enclave Parkway
Houston, TX 77077, USA
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practices are in compliance with applicable laws and other governmental enactments. Dow assumes no
obligation or liability for the information in this document. NO WARRANTIES ARE GIVEN; ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED.
All environmental marketing should be in compliance with FTC’s “Guides for the Use of Environmental
Marketing Claims”.