Consumer attitude to food packaging and the market for environmentally compatible products

摘要: Publisher Summary The purpose of food packaging is to protect the product from its surroundings and maintain quality throughout product's shelf-life. Packaging can be safely handled in any modern waste management system, whether it recycled, composted, burned, or buried. Increasing consumer demand for microbiologically safer foods, greater convenience, smaller packages, longer shelf-life forcing industry develop new processing, cooking, handling, strategies. One challenges facing efforts produce bio-based primary match durability with biologically based material must remain stable without changes mechanical and/or barrier properties function properly during storage until disposal. Subsequently, should biodegrade efficiently. study behavior aims elucidate how people process information, make decisions, evaluate products purchases. It attempts understand buyer decision-making process, both individually groups. Most consumers believe that government's task provide incentives manufacturers use recyclable biodegradable packaging. A more ‘aggressive' intensive campaign toward consumers' education regarding recycled undertaken by organizations worldwide conjunction governments.