KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (한국포장학회지)

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A Study on the Safety of Food Packaging Materials from the Perspective of the Circular Economy

순환경제 관점에서 본 플라스틱 식품포장재 재활용의 안전성에 관한 고찰

  • 김미경 (단국대학교 식품공학과)
  • Received : 2021.11.28
  • Accepted : 2021.12.03
  • Published : 2021.12.31
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Abstract

Advances in food packaging play an important role in keeping food manufacturing and food supply safe. Food packaging facilitates the storage, handling, transportation and preservation of food, and also contributes to the minimization of food waste. On the other hand, food packaging materials have high production volumes, short usage times, and accelerate the occurrence of environmental problems related to waste. The circular economy has already been introduced to pursue sustainability through resource conservation and recycling, and to reduce waste and carbon emissions. By activating an eco-friendly economic system that minimizes resource depletion and environmental pollution, reducing, reusing, recycling and redesigning the goals of the circular economy will reduce the impact of food packaging on the environment. This review focused on the safety aspects of recycled food packaging as recycling is currently considered an important means of packaging waste management. Assessing the safety of recycled packaging is very important because recycling can increase the levels of potentially hazardous chemicals in packaging and in the food after they are migrated. Various food packaging materials such as plastic, paper and cardboard, aluminum, steel, and multi-material multi-layers packaging are commonly used, but only the recycling safety of plastic food packaging materials, which is the most used and has a significant increase in post-use problem, is discussed in this review.

식품포장의 발전은 식품 제조 및 식품 공급을 안전하게 유지하는 데 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 식품포장은 식품의 보관, 취급, 운송 및 보존을 용이하게 하며 음식물 쓰레기를 최소화하는데도 기여하고 있다. 반면에 식품포장재는 생산량이 많고 사용 시간이 짧고 폐기물 관리 및 쓰레기와 관련된 환경문제 발생을 가속시키고 있으므로, 포장 기술은 식품 보호와 에너지 및 재료 비용, 환경사회적 의식 고양, 그리고 오염물질 및 도시고형폐기물 처리에 대한 엄격한 규제 등의 문제와 균형을 이루며 발전되어야 한다. 자원의 절약과 재활용을 통해 지속가능성을 추구하며 폐기물 생성 및 탄소배출을 줄이는 순환경제(Circular Economy)가 이미 도입되었다. 자원고갈과 환경오염을 최대한으로 줄이는 친환경 경제시스템을 활성화하여 감량, 재사용, 재활용, 재설계로 순환경제의 목표를 실천하면 식품포장이 환경에 미치는 영향도 줄일 수 있을 것이다. 이 고찰에서는, 재활용이 현재 포장 폐기물을 관리하는 중요한 수단으로 여겨지기 때문에 재활용 식품포장의 안전성 측면에 중점을 두어 설명하였다. 재활용은 잠재적으로 위험한 화학물질이 포장재에서 또는 식품으로 이행된 후의 그 수준을 증가시킬 수 있으므로 재활용 포장재의 안전성을 평가하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 플라스틱, 종이 및 판지, 알루미늄, 강철 및 다중재료 다층 포장 등 다양한 식품포장 재료가 일반적으로 사용되나 여기서는 가장 사용 비중이 크고 사용 후 문제가 심각하게 증가되고 있는 플라스틱 식품포장재의 재활용 안전성에 대해서만 고찰하였다.

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