Saturday, April 26, 2014

Why Environmentally Friendly Food Packaging Should Be Adopted

By Eloise Hewitt


Meals are very important to the lives of human beings. There is need for people to take healthy meals that are not risky to human life. This calls for high maintenance of hygiene by conducting environmentally friendly food packaging. Many options are available for consideration. The only disadvantage is that in most cases thy cause untold danger due to pollution and become a threat to life.

The environment only supports life because of the availability of oxygen. This should be kept in constant and sufficient supply if people were to be assured of their survival. Non-biodegradable materials pose untold danger to the atmosphere. These include plastics and glasses. Since they cannot decay, they form heaps that become a nuisance as they cannot be disposed.

The dangers that they portend range from short term to long term ones. In the short term, children might play near the garbage heaps and get injured. Some might contain rotten particles that if inhaled by children prove being highly poisonous. On the long term, there is the possible risk of losing our vegetation cover to these non-disposable wastes. Also, the ozone layer might be depleted due to the fumes that are emitted when plastics are burnt.

As a consequence, all edibles need to be prepared and packed in a safe and clean manner to give no chance to interference by germs. One aspect that is accounted for during this process is the expected shelf life of the food. Next, look at the availability of the wrapping materials and if they are safe in terms of cleanliness and hygiene. It is also good to determine the possibility of them being recycled.

Although they fail to decay, chlorofluorocarbons like plastic and rubber are at times unavoidable. Nevertheless, care should be taken not to use them in excess as this adds salt to an incurable wound. Training and sensitization by the producing companies on how to go about managing wastes and disposing them off safely can go a long way in bringing positive change.

Canned foods are normally kept for a long time in metallic or plastic containers. When opened and used, people tend to throw them away anyhow. This this should not be the case. Instead, proper strategies for disposal should be laid. The packages once used need to be disposed of safely. In most cases there are dust bins where such can be thrown and later picked the right authorities that will definitely know where to place them.

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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