Almost all the foods we buy in stores, restuarants, 7-eleven anywhere you can buy food or even products come in packagings. The foods we buy and eat come in different varieties of packagings such as glass, metal (aluminum, foil and laminate, tin-free steels, and tinplate), boxes and plastics. Moreover, there are varieties of packagings that come in foods we buy in stores.

There are important and specific reasons why food comes in specific packaging. Food packaging is vital for protecting food against external microbes and bacteria. It also helps preserve food and ensure it doesn’t spoil. For an example, you don’t package tomato sauce in a cardboard box. It just doesn’t work. You don’t preserve vegatables or fruits in a glass bottle. There are specific resons to why food packaging is different for each food because it helps different food preserve food in a way where it fits and protects the food products we buy.

Packaging can be positive and negative in many different ways. Some positives about packaging is that there are now Eco-friendly packaging we can use. Packaging protects the product, keeps the product from going bad. Although there are positives we always need to remember there are negatvies we need to be aware of. Packaging can be expensive, packaging exhausts natural resources and some forms of plastic packaging are health hazards

These packaging waste that eventually goes into the ocean often comes from places as lakes, streams, and sewage. The packages even after hundreds of years are still there. Plastic is everywhere. It ends up in the ocean, and takes hundred of years to break down. Most of the food waste ends up in landfill sites where it rots and releases methane, a damaging green house gas.

We can’t change the packaging method overnight, nor we can’t change all the garbage in the ocean overnight, it takes time. Something we can try and reduce packaging waste can be starting off with minimisation of packaging material ranging up to a zero waste strategy. We can have more social awareness and education of all these waste that it ruining our world. But, none of these can happen unless no steps up to take the lead. The lack of motivation to start making change can affect us in the future. We want to make a change in our world but if we don’t take our action soon, sooner or later it will be too late.