Draft:Packaging
Packaging is needed for food and non-food products alike. Even in a world without marketing, packaging is still needed to protect products from damage. In this way, there is a tradeoff between packaging waste and food waste
TODO: status quo stats:
- how much packaging is thrown out every day
- how much of all packaging is plastic
- list all the negative environmental effects of disposible plastic
- is there any way to prevent it from ending up in the ocean?
TODO: talk about overpackaging
- examples and alternatives
- estimate if possible: what percent of all packaging could be avoided if those alternatives were implemented in general
TODO: explore the possibility of converting biomass waste to packaging
- is there enough supply of it?
- what if we grew less crops due to reducing food waste and animal husbandry - would there still be enough supply for packaging?
- compare scenarios 'status quo' and 'less overpackaging' if the earlier estimate was available
- what if we grew less crops due to reducing food waste and animal husbandry - would there still be enough supply for packaging?
- is it technically feasable?
- could all biomass waste be converted into packaging? Or only some of it? Estimate the percentage?
- what are the ways? industrial processes? mushroom culture? etc - what are their yields
(...)( expressed in terms of output.mass / input.mass)?