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Food packaging, particularly packaging for fish, relies heavily on the use of Styrofoam (i.e. expanded polystyrene or EPS). The world’s concern for environmental sustainability has prompted a need for eco-friendly alternatives and has led governments to enact single use plastics bans in many areas, such as Montreal and New York. Further, Canada is planning to be “zero-plastic waste by 2030” and over 35 other countries have already banned certain single use plastics.
This multi-year project includes the search for, or the development, of a material that is biodegradable and made from a renewable resource that will replace Styrofoam, for the purpose of food packaging. Along with this material search, a manufacturing solution to make fish boxes at a large scale will mirror this process.
Hossein Kazemian
Nasim Ghavidel Darestani
Brown's Bay Packing Ltd.
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University of Northern British Columbia
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