Advances in food packaging have delivered important benefits for food safety and for the durability of food (thus reducing food waste and the associated waste of resources and avoidable GHG emissions) and the sector is continuously innovating. However the packaging sector is also a user of nonrenewable resources and fossil fuels, and generates waste disposal issues.
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