Circul-a-bility

🌍 This week, we had the privilege of hosting the 4th Circul-a-bility Conference at Aarhus University! Researchers from across Europe (and beyond!) came together to explore the latest advancements in #food #packaging, focusing on safety, sustainability, and circularity, among other topics! 📦 This year, food packaging #reuse was emphasized, with a thought-provoking keynote by Bahar Koyuncu Caylak from Ellen MacArthur Foundation. I also had the opportunity to present results from the R3PACK - Reduce, Reuse, Rethink PACKaging project, alongside Angelos Balatsas-Lekkas from University of Vaasa, who shared insights from initiatives like the recently started STOPP PROJECT. 💡 A highlight was the roundtable discussion I co-organized with Selcuk Yildirim, featuring Davide Mazzanti from sykell, Fernando Rodríguez-Mata from New ERA - New European Reuse Alliance, Diana S. from The LCA Centre B.V., Jeannette Morath from reCIRCLE AG, and Simon R. from City of Aarhus. The exchange of ideas on the future of packaging reuse was truly inspiring! 🙌 A big thank you to Milena Corredig, Ilke Uysal Unalan, and everyone else who helped organize this incredible conference. Looking forward to many more impactful discussions in the future! 📸 Some pictures attached! Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University, MAPP Centre, Department of Food Science, AU FOOD

Tell me you are at the 4th Circul-a-bility Conference in Aarhus University without telling me... Welcome bag with the essentials: raincoat much needed 🔝 🙌 Looking forward to the next three days learning about #FoodPackaging #Sustainability #Circulability24

I am proud and exciting to announce our new review article entitled “Bioplastic packaging for fresh meat and fish: Current status and future direction on mitigating food and packaging waste”. It is published in Elsevier Trends in Food Science & Technology which is one of the premier international peer-reviewed journals. This article is the work of a large consortium of EU COST ACTION project Circul-a-bility, coming from different disciplines. As this review is clearly discussing food-package unit and not only food or package with a holistic approach including end-of-life of post-consumer packaging waste, this as a whole brings new insights. A short summary of this work: Bioplastic materials are gaining massive attention as promising biobased or biodegradable polymers to build a green and sustainable material platform with inherent advantages in the food packaging sector, however, to successfully implement large-scale transformations toward low- or zero-waste systems we jointly need to address the major technical and non-technical hurdles for implementation of bioplastic food packaging solutions within the future circular food supply chains. In this work, it is advocated that among all foods, fresh meat and fish stand out as a category well suited to an early implementation of bioplastic packaging solutions, due to the perishable nature and susceptibility to spoilage of these food products. This work uniquely provides a holistic view of food packaging and clearly demonstrates the importance of focusing on the food/package interface. For further reading, here is the link: https://lnkd.in/dF2aBNtE To all the people behind this success, thank you all the co-authors! Ece Sogut, Carolina Realini, Hülya Ç., Emel Öz, Eduardo Espinosa Víctor, Ramón Morcillo Martín, Fatih Öz, Mari Nurmi, Miguel Ângelo Cerqueira, Kalpani Y. Perera, Zehra Ayhan, D. Keriman Arserim Uçar, Chryssa Kanakaki, Polymeros Chrysochou, Begonya Marcos, and my special thanks go to my dear colleague, Milena Corredig for her support along the way. Department of Food Science, AU FOOD #Bioplastic #BiobasedSolutions #Sustainability #Packaging #FoodCentricApproach #FoodandPackagingWaste European Bioplastics

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