Challenges and possible solutions to mitigate the problems of single-use plastics used for packaging food items: A review

A Dey, CV Dhumal, P Sengupta, A Kumar… - Journal of Food Science …, 2021 - Springer
Single-use plastic (SUP) being a versatile material, is adopted as an alternate to traditional
materials specifically for the use in food packaging due to its inherent characteristics like …

Food packaging technology considerations for designers: Attending to food, consumer, manufacturer, and environmental issues

D Turan, BM Keukens… - … Reviews in Food …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Food packaging is essential for preserving food safety and quality while also addressing
environmental concerns. Designers are at the forefront of developing packaging solutions …

SCOBY Breastplate: Slowly Growing a Microbial Interface

F Bell, D Chow, H Choi, M Alistar - Proceedings of the Seventeenth …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present an interactive breastplate grown and fabricated from SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture
Of Bacteria and Yeast) biofilm over the course of 13 weeks. Challenging the fail-fast and …

The specifics of food design: Insights from professional design practice

M Bordewijk, HNJ Schifferstein - International Journal of Food …, 2020 - intellectdiscover.com
What makes food design different from other types of industrial product design? Based on
over twenty years of professional design practice and food experience research, the authors …

Bio-Digital Calendar: Attuning to Nonhuman Temporalities for Multispecies Understanding

F Bell, J Coffie, M Alistar - … of the Eighteenth International Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We explore how actively engaging with the temporalities of a nonhuman organism can lead
to multispecies understanding. To do so, we design a bio-digital calendar that brings …

Do-it-yourself approach applied to the valorisation of a wheat milling industry's by-product for producing bio-based material

E Comino, L Dominici, D Perozzi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Cereal processing and flour production play a key role in the Italian agrifood scenario
generating valuable economic incomes and contributing significantly to the export market …

Bacterial cellulose: Strategies for its production in the context of bioeconomy

ARFS Rocha, BC Venturim… - Journal of Basic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial cellulose has advantages over plant‐derived cellulose, which make its use for
industrial applications easier and more profitable. Its intrinsic properties have been …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial Cellulose: From Biofabrication to Applications in Sustainable Fashion and Vegan Leather

D Absharina, M Padri, C Veres, C Vágvölgyi - Fermentation, 2025 - mdpi.com
The rising demand for sustainable materials has led to a significant focus on developing
resources from renewable systems, particularly through the integration of biological …

Innocell Bioreactor: An Open-Source Development to Produce Biomaterials for Food and Packaging Based on Fermentation Processes

N Cohen, E Sicher, C Ayala-Garcia, IM Sanchez-Fayos… - Fermentation, 2023 - mdpi.com
A growing number of science and design scholars and design practitioners have recently
embarked on studying fermentation processes to produce alternative materials. The main …

Perceiving grown bacterial cellulose: An aesthetic and sensorial evaluation of a bio-fabricated material

F Papile, P Bolzan, S Parisi, B Pollini - UNIDCOM/IADE International …, 2021 - Springer
Biofabricated and grown materials are an emergent trend in the design discipline. The push
towards the re-search of innovative and sustainable material solutions has recently …