@article{van schoubroeck_chacon_reynolds_lavoine_hakovirta_gonzalez_van passel_venditti_2023, title={Environmental sustainability perception toward obvious recovered waste content in paper-based packaging: An online and in-person survey best-worst scaling experiment}, volume={188}, ISSN={["1879-0658"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106682}, DOI={10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106682}, abstractNote={This study explores consumers’ visual sustainability impressions of paper-based packaging that has incorporated obvious waste content. Two research questions were addressed concerning (i) the environmental sustainability perception of noticeable waste content in packaging and (ii) the impact of the presentation format (i.e., online versus in-person surveys) when studying these perceptions. Best-worst scaling experiments were conducted, which made respondents choose the ‘most’ and ‘least’ environmentally friendly package. Packages were designed using paperboard substrates blending either brown linerboard or white hardwood pulp with different recovered waste materials. The results showed that consumers perceive obvious waste-containing packaging as more environmentally friendly than classical packaging (with no visual waste). Samples with a brown base and agricultural waste were perceived as more sustainable compared to white packaging and the use of paper waste. In addition, the presentation format changed respondents’ perception, and should therefore be carefully considered when designing surveys.}, journal={RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING}, author={Van Schoubroeck, Sophie and Chacon, Lisandra and Reynolds, Autumn M. and Lavoine, Nathalie and Hakovirta, Marko and Gonzalez, Ronalds and Van Passel, Steven and Venditti, Richard A.}, year={2023}, month={Jan} }
 @misc{szlek_reynolds_hubbe_2022, title={Hydrophobic Molecular Treatments of Cellulose-based or Other Polysaccharide Barrier Layers for Sustainable Food Packaging: A Review}, volume={17}, ISSN={["1930-2126"]}, DOI={10.15376/biores.17.2.Szlek}, abstractNote={Paper, nanocellulose, and other polysaccharide-based materials can be excellent candidates for food packaging barrier layers, except that they tend to be vulnerable to moisture. This article reviews published research describing various chemical treatments having the potential to render hydrophobic character to such layers. Emphasis is placed on systems in which hydrophobic monomers are used to treat either particles or sheets comprised largely of polysaccharides. A goal of this review is to identify combinations of materials and procedures having promise for scale-up to industrial production, while providing effective resistance to moisture. The idea is to protect the underlying polysaccharide-based barrier layers such that they can continue to impede the transfer of such permeants as oxygen, greases, flavor compounds, and water vapor. A further goal is to minimize any adverse environmental impacts associated with the treatments. Based on the research articles considered in this review, promising hydrophobic treatments can be achieved involving silanes, ester formation, other covalent interactions, plasma treatments, and to some extent by various treatments that do not require formation of covalent bonds. The article is designed such that readers can skip ahead to items of particular interest to them.}, number={2}, journal={BIORESOURCES}, author={Szlek, Dorota B. and Reynolds, Autumn M. and Hubbe, Martin A.}, year={2022}, month={May}, pages={3551–3673} }