{"id":130203,"date":"2024-05-07T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/turning-waste-into-wonder-food-packaging-research-holds-promise-for-a-more-sustainable-future\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:58:23","slug":"turning-waste-into-wonder-food-packaging-research-holds-promise-for-a-more-sustainable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/turning-waste-into-wonder-food-packaging-research-holds-promise-for-a-more-sustainable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning waste into wonder: Food packaging research holds promise for a more sustainable future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130203\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Zhaoxu Meng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, leads a new Clemson University research project that aims to find ways of making sustainable food packaging from biopolymers, such as the cellulose in kudzu. Biopolymers can be derived from natural resources such as cereals and byproducts often considered waste, including fruit seeds, peels, vines and peanut shells.<\/p>\n<p>Biopolymer packaging would be biodegradable and could come with benefits that extend beyond keeping food fresh. For example, chitosan derived from the shells of shrimp and other crustaceans could add antimicrobial properties to food packaging. The approach holds the promise of packing a double punch for sustainability. It could reduce the amount of plastic that piles up in landfills and pollutes oceans, while taking what would usually be considered waste and making it useful.<\/p>\n<p>Underlying the research is that different types of biopolymers can be extracted from natural resources and combined to make nanocomposite materials that show promise as sustainable food packaging. Meng and his team plan to use computational modeling and machine learning to better understand how various combinations of biopolymers interact and function together across different length scales starting from the molecular level. The techniques could help researchers predict which nanocomposite materials made from biopolymers would work best for food packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.clemson.edu\/turning-waste-into-wonder-food-packaging-research-holds-promise-for-a-more-sustainable-future\/\">Clemson News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/3-517\/\">Turning waste into wonder: Food packaging research holds promise for a more sustainable future<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,762,445],"class_list":["post-130203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-food-packaging","tag-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}