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  2. Disposable food packaging - Wikipedia

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    Disposable food packaging comprises disposable products often found in fast-food restaurants, take-out restaurants and catering establishments. Typical products are foam food containers, plates, bowls, cups, utensils, doilies and tray papers. These products can be made from a number of materials including plastics, paper, bioresins, wood and ...

  3. Food packaging - Wikipedia

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    Food packaging is created through the use of a wide variety of plastics and metals, papers, and glass materials. Recycling these products differs from the act of literally reusing them because the recycling process has its own algorithm which includes collecting, sourcing, processing, manufacturing and marketing these products.

  4. Packaging - Wikipedia

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    UK Risperdal Tablets 2000 in a blister pack, which was itself packaged in a folding carton made of paperboard. Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.

  5. Papermaking - Wikipedia

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    The "handsheets" made according to TAPPI Standard T 205 [20] are circular sheets 15.9 cm (6.25 in) in diameter and are tested for paper characteristics such as brightness, strength and degree of sizing. [21] Paper made from other fibers, cotton being the most common, tends to be valued higher than wood-based paper. [citation needed]

  6. Food industry - Wikipedia

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    The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labour-intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly ...

  7. Plastic container - Wikipedia

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    Asia Pacific dominated the global plastic packaging market in 2016. In second place comes North America. The pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries contributed the most to the use of plastic packaging products. During 2016, Asia Pacific accounted for more than 30 percent of the shares of the total volume consumption in this market. [6]

  8. Paper - Wikipedia

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    For other uses: emery paper, blotting paper, litmus paper, universal indicator paper, paper chromatography, electrical insulation paper (see also fishpaper), filter paper, wallpaper It is estimated that paper-based storage solutions captured 0.33% of the total in 1986 and only 0.007% in 2007, even though in absolute terms the world's capacity ...

  9. Food policy - Wikipedia

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    The primary international agency with a focus on food policy is the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, established in 1945 with four express purposes: to improve nutrition and living standards in member nations, improve the efficiency of production and distribution of all food and agricultural products, better the conditions of rural populations, and expand the ...