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Starch-Based Sustainable Food Packaging

Current Practices and Future Trends

  • 1st Edition - October 15, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Bilge Nazli Altay, Burak Aksoy, Ting Chen
  • Language: English

Starch-based Sustainable Food Packaging: Current Practices and Future Trends covers the world of starch-based materials, offering a comprehensive exploration of their potent… Read more

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Description

Starch-based Sustainable Food Packaging: Current Practices and Future Trends covers the world of starch-based materials, offering a comprehensive exploration of their potential as a revolutionary force in the packaging industry. Beginning with the fundamentals, readers are introduced to the very essence of starch. Other sections trace the roots of starch-based food packaging, explore current practices shaping the industry, delve into the advantages and disadvantages of starch-based food packaging, cover strategies for enhancing shelf-life, present the global landscape of sustainable packaging, review regulatory matters, and offer a thorough examination of regulations and policies surrounding synthetic (petroleum) materials.

Readers will also find out the latest information on environmental consciousness, various processing techniques, innovations, and emerging technologies, including blends, composites, and starch nanoparticles. Edited by an internationally diverse group of experts and leaders who possess extensive experience in the area, this book is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference for professionals, researchers, scientists, policymakers, regulators, students, and anyone interested in understanding the latest developments and innovations in the field of food packaging.

Key features

  • Covers recent breakthroughs in the development of biomaterials from various starches using numerous processes
  • Includes starch-based polymer films and their composites in food applications
  • Explores the development and characterization of starch-based food packaging
  • Investigates the renewable nature of starch-based sources for packaging material and their reuse and recycling

Readership

Packaging and manufacturing professionals, research and development personal, scientists, packaging designers, structural designers, environmental experts, food industry professionals, government and regulatory bodies, consultants

Table of contents

1. Starch as a Sustainable Packaging Material (starch and its types, renewable sources, extraction methods, modified starch, environmental benefits)

2. Introduction to Starch-based Food Packaging

3. Advantages and Disadvantages/Hurdles of Starch-based Food Packaging

4. Enhancing Shelf-life (delaying ripening, extending storage life)

5. Global Initiatives and Collaborations, Regulations and Policies, Consumer Awareness and Industry Uptake

6. Biodegradation and Environmental Impact

7. Processing Techniques (extrusion, film casting, coating, 3D printing, electrospinning etc)

8. Innovations and Emerging Applications (blends and composites, starch nanoparticles)

9. Medical Applications, Antioxidant, Antibacterial, Antifungal films

10. Active and Smart Packaging (functional sensing applications)

11. Edible Applications

12. Thermoplastic Starch and Composites

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 15, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

BA

Bilge Nazli Altay

Bilge Nazli Altay earned her Doctorate in Paper and Printing Science at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Packaging and Graphic Media Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research interests include packaging and printing materials, ink-coating-substrate interactions, color management, coating and ink formulation, industrial and functional printing, flexible hybrid printed electronics, lean manufacturing, and continuous improvement.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Packaging and Graphic Media Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

BA

Burak Aksoy

Dr. Burak Aksoy received his doctorate degree from Western Michigan University, Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Imaging Department in 2004 and his MBA degree from Auburn University in 2005. He has been serving Auburn University since 2006. He is currently an Associate Research Professor at Forest Products Development Laboratory within CFWE of Auburn University. Dr. Burak Aksoy’s expertise and research interests are in the area of pulp and paper engineering, paper coatings, packaging solutions, biomass engineering, value added chemicals, products and materials from biomass, nano-cellulose applications and composites. He has been involved in several corporate or government sponsored research, technology development, and technology deployment projects. He is authored and co-authored about 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Research Professor, Forest Products Development Laboratory, CFWE of Auburn University, USA

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Ting Chen

Ting Chen earned her Doctorate in Paper Engineering and Science at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is currently a Senior Scientist at Kemira. She is a passionate packaging engineer with unique background in packaging science, paper engineering, and printing. Combining more than ten years' research and industrial experience in barrier coatings, fiber-based materials, plastic films, packaging and printing technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Kemira, USA