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Global food waste figures are alarming
Globally, about 14 per cent of food is lost between harvest and retail.
It is estimated that 17 per cent of total food production is wasted globally (11 per cent of which comes from households, 5 per cent from food services and 2 per cent from retail).
Lost and wasted food accounts for 38 per cent of total energy use in the global food system.
Anti-Food Waste Laws
The issue of global food security has become increasingly prominent due to the combined effects of multiple factors such as the climate crisis, new crown epidemics, economic turmoil and military conflicts. More and more governments and related organisations have begun to focus on how to enhance the resilience of the food system to help the millions of people suffering from famine around the world.
Saving food and refusing to waste is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. In order to prevent food waste and ensure national food security, the Anti-Food Waste Law of the People's Republic of China was voted on and implemented last year. The 14th Five-Year Plan and the Vision 2035 Outline propose to effectively reduce losses in food production, storage, transport and processing, and to carry out food-saving actions.
Packaging: making the food system more sustainable
As a globally recognised provider of sustainable packaging solutions, Chengda Group believes that sustainable food packaging plays an important role in ensuring food supply and security, and contributes to the resilience of the global food system.
Packaging helps keep food moving from farm to fork and makes it more accessible and affordable.
By providing protection from chemical, biological and physical external influences, packaging can delay food spoilage, retain the fruits of processing, extend shelf life, and also maintain or improve the quality and safety of food. The longer food can be stored, the higher its value in the face of a crisis.
Packaging ensures that the resources used to produce food and the resulting carbon footprint are not wasted, minimising the environmental impact. The environmental benefits of avoiding food waste are typically 5-10 times greater than the environmental costs of packaging.
Recently, Chengda Group, together with the Pengye Institute, which focuses on China's urban development process, held a discussion on "Packaging: Making the Food System More Sustainable". The event was also supported by the China Packaging Federation's Circular Economy Committee.
In this discussion, many experts, including Zhu Dajian, Distinguished Professor of Tongji University and Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Management, shared their observations, research and practices around the issues of how to view the role of food packaging on China's food system, how food packaging should respond to the challenges brought by urban development and the external environment, and how it affects urban life and the transition to green and low-carbon.
Although packaging is small, there is a big article of environmental protection and sustainability hidden in the small details. About China, cities, low carbon, culture, and food packaging, in fact, is complementary, interdependent relationship. Chengda Machinery hopes to establish an interactive partnership with our customers and suppliers to maximise the protection of the whole value chain from farm to fork through better and more ingenious packaging, to reduce food waste and to contribute to resource conservation, circular economy and food security.
