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- Title
Percepción de consumidores y perspectivas de industrias de alimentos de Cali sobre el uso de bioplástico en sus empaques.
- Authors
Pinto Torres, Camilo Andrés; Cardona Gómez, Juanita; Polanco Puerta, Manuel Francisco
- Abstract
Massive food market trends and food safety demands have favored the use of plastic packaging from fossil sources generating critical environmental, social, and economic impacts. Bioplastics are presented as a more sustainable alternative to replace single-use plastics. This research analyzes consumers' perceptions and industrialists regarding the use of bioplastics for the packaging of food for mass consumption in the northern region of the department of Cauca and southern Valle del Cauca, in Colombia. It uses a mixed methodology with qualitative and quantitative information, including fieldwork observation of packaging in the market, consumer surveys in the region characterized by gender, socioeconomic stratum and age, and interviews with executives from food industries and plastics companies. The final disposition of the bioplastics has a structure of separation in the source and uses derivatives similar to petroleum, its use adds a new material that with the current structure would be added to close its cycle in sanitary landfills and water sources, without generating favorable impacts. The advantages of bioplastics are their compostability and their origin from renewable sources.
- Subjects
CAUCA (Colombia : Dept.); COLOMBIA; SINGLE-use plastics; SANITARY landfills; PLASTICS industries; BIODEGRADABLE plastics; PACKAGING industry; PLASTICS in packaging; FOOD packaging; ECONOMIC trends; GROCERY shopping
- Publication
Universidad & Empresa, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 44, p1
- ISSN
0124-4639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/empresa/a.12506