Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Why Environmentally Friendly Food Packaging Should Be Adopted

By Eloise Hewitt


Having a meal is an important element of human livelihood. The meals need to be healthy and should not pose any risk to life. It is therefore important to maintain high hygienic practices through environmentally friendly food packaging. There are many options when it comes to this. Unfortunately, most of the choices made lead to massive pollution risking the very lives of those who use them.

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.

Their effects can either be long term or short term. For the former, the biggest culprits are children who like playing near dumping sites. They risk injury either physically or caused by chemicals. Poisonous gases are also released from these sites that can make the children sick. The long term effects range from vegetation depletion to ozone layer depletion. All these problems could be avoided if garbage was disposed of well.

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.

A time comes when there is no other option but to use either rubber or plastic or stuffs like that. One has to be very cautious in such a situation to avoid excessively using them. The manufacturers need to sensitize their consumers adequately about how to manage wastes and advise them to avail their trash for recycling if possible. They can do this by making lucrative offers to those who comply.

Plastics or cans are sometimes used as food storage for such a long duration that they risk going bad. Since these cans are not eaten, they are better dumped safely or returned to the factory for recycling. Rules and regulations on these matters if any have to be followed promptly. One conventional way is the use of strategically placed bins. The bins are emptied and properly emptied according to laid down procedure by professionals.

For us to live in a safe environment, we first need to clean the air which supports our lives. Packaging normally involves use of preservatives, some of which can have dangerous fumes. These may be dangerous if released. Conversely, proper studies need to be done to ensure that our products are safe for consumption and pose no danger to the environment or people around us. The harmful toxins, if found, are detoxified by professionals and the producers advised accordingly.

Our desire of being creative and have attractive covers for our products thus needs not to override the requirement to comply with laid down health regulations. Of utmost importance is to beware of the chemicals we release into the environment as these later become a stumbling block in terms of diseases and other complications.




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