The diploma’s thesis focuses on two topics – food packaging materials and modern types of food packaging. The theoretical part presents the basics of food packaging, its division into materials, description of their materials features, and detailed description of types of modern packaging.
The experimental part consists of market analysis and a survey. Just like in the theoretical part, the market analysis is divided into materials that are divided into types of packaging from a particular material. Every type of food packaging is detailedly described and shown in pictures. For every type of material, there is a description of its evolution through time. This represents important milestones in evolution and what brought packaging to its modern figure. In a survey, I was interested in whether the customers are interested in food packaging materials, whether they are aware of food packaging materials when they buy them, whether they think the use of plastic packaging is exaggerated, whether they have already heard of smart packaging, and whether they are prepared to buy it or pay more money for it. The analysis of the results showed that the buyers are partially aware of food packaging materials. They think the use of plastic packaging is exaggerated. They support charging plastic bags in shops and they are mostly not familiar with smart packaging although they would possibly pay more for it.
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