The document outlines activities for students to investigate food packaging materials and their environmental impacts. It also describes the design of a "Hot/Ice box" packaging project. The project aims to design packaging that can keep food hot or cold for long periods of time during travel. Students tested different materials to identify those that best protected tomatoes from damage during drops. Their final design used corrugated wrap, foam, and biodegradable materials. They concluded the design met people's needs to safely transport hot or cold food long distances.

1. Sultan Abdullah Ishaq Noor Habib
Khalid Hamad

2. Outline
 Outline
 Activity 1: Investigating food packaging
 Activity 2: Analyzing food packaging materials
 Activity 3: Evaluating the impact of food packaging on the
environment
 Activity 4: Researching food packaging materials
 Activity 5: Designing a protective packaging
 Product Idea: )Hot/Ice box(

3. FOOD PACKAGING
Food packaging and packaging for food. Package
provides protection, and resistance to tampering,
especially physical, chemical or biological needs.

4. Activity 1:Investigating food
packaging
1. We put popcorn in the microwave.
2. Bulging bag of popcorn and then ripen.
3. We opened the bag and found some of the corn has not equated.
4. Purpose: Verification of microwave popcorn packaging efficiency.

5. Activity 1:Investigating food
packaging
Popcorn bag Observations
Popped 149
Not popped 9
Conclusion: packaging efficiency = 9/149 = 6%

6. Activity 2:Analyzing food
packaging materials
 This is our second activity with Albairaq and we are
going to analyse what is inside our grocery bag.
 We are going to list three types of foods in a data
tale.

7.  Data tale for analysis of food packaging
materials.
Type of food
package
Materials used
in packaging
Purpose of each
material
Batook •
chewing gum
Wax •
Carton •
The wax protect
the carton from
liquid
Mountain Dew • Aluminium •
Tin plate steel •
 Packing Mass (g)
Product Mass (g)
 Product mass = (package + Food mass) –
Package mass

8. Activity 3:Evaluating the impact of
food packaging on the environment
(objectives)
 We are going to decide which package is the best for the
environment.
 We will examine several different types of packaging.
(procedure)
 The packaging that has the lowest mass is the one that
requires the least amount of materials and energy to
produce.
 packaging that made of recycled materials help reduce
waste.

9. Activity 3:Evaluating the impact of food packaging on
the environment
 Data table:-

Product
Description of
packaging and
materials
Product Image Total mass
of
packaging
and product
Mass of
packing
alone
Prod/Packing
uct ratio
Hero baby
food
Glass with
aluminium
cover
130 g 1.10 g
honey
bottle
Glass with
aluminium
cover
307+750=1057
Tray
strawberry
milk
Plastic 180+18.6=198.6

10. (conclusion)
 A lower number means more efficient packaging.
 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle are the importance of
deciding which is the best package for the
environment.

11. Activity 5:Designing a protective
packaging
 We are going to design our own package by using
simple material.
 We will compare different materials.
 We have noticed that scientists have developed
protection in some food like eggs packaging ,
tomato, etc…

12.  PART A:-
 Comparing different materials.
 Materials be tasted by :-
 Perforated foam sheets.
 Material to be tested by group: Paper , air bubble sheet
Description of tomato and
package
Observation of tomato and
package after drop from
50
cm
100
cm
150
cm
200
cm
250
cm
300
cm
Experimental no no no no yes no
control no no yes no no no
Mass of
packaging
22 g
Mass of
tomato
181.9
%=0.1209
Activity 5:Designing a protective
packaging

13.  Part B:-
 Designing a protective package
 The materials we used:-
1. Corrugated wrap.
2. Perforated foam sheets.
3. Biodegradable packaging.

14. Activity 6:
Step 1 Step 2

Step 3 Step 4 

15. Activity 6:
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Experimental
Control
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Time Experimental Control
0
min
80 c 80 c
1min 78 c 75 c
2 min 76 c 73 c
3 min 75 c 71 c
4 min 74 c 71 c
5 min 72 c 69 c
6
min
71 c 68 c
7 min 70 c 66 c
8
min
69 c 64 c
9
min
67 c 63 c
10
min
66 c 60 c

16. Design Project: Hot/ Ice box
Objective
Each group have to design a project to preserve food. The
project have to be designed by the requests and needs of
the people
We are going to design our own project called (Hot/Ice
box)
Procedure/prototypes
We design this project to make something new and benefit
for the people and we try hard to let our product be such as
we planned, put we need you to support us and help us to
develop this project. It’s designed from simple materials,
but we strive to develop it.

17. Product Idea
Hot/Ice box
 There are needs for our project to benefit Qatari society
and other societies. The project has attracted us as it is
useful and easy to use and a lot of people need this project
alive, we are one of those who are in need for this project.
 This project is special because of the experience and
reliability of the result, and have many of the featured
properties. We were interested in this project because it
helps to keep the food hot or cold and keep it in preserved
and stable for a long time, and to maintain the
temperature. Our project have a promising future, but after
the development of the project and the achievement of all
the changes.

18.  The aim of the work (goals)
 The most important goal to reach it from our
project is to achieve what people need
 To keep the food hot and cold
 Maintaining the temperature
 Use it anywhere
 Hypothesis
 We assume from the project to succeed and work
like we designed it. They carry all the needs of the
community.

19. Hot/ice Box
Our product story
Through our participation in the al-bairaq we learned 
how to save food and packaged in a healthy and cheap
package and can be recycled and not harm the
environment, Al Bairaq team helped us during the
workshop to get ideas and also think of new and useful
ways , and we were able to design a project save and
heat food , we called (Hot/ ice Box) .

20. Hot/ice Box
 The benefits of our project is to keep the hot and
cold food and maintain the temperature for a long
time with minimum Fund for the heat insulator. We
have designed this project for people who love safari
and long trips

21. Results
 We were able to workout with this project, it has
been useful and we have reached the goal.
Conclusion
 We hope that this community benefits from this
project because it meets their needs and it’s useful
and easy to use and transport.

22. Recommendations
 We advise to improve this project, it must be: -
 More useful
 More protection
 More than the size of the different places and people
 Our need greater protection to avoid problems of
this project because it is not cooling materials such
as thermal insulation so it really needs to be
improved.

23. Conclusions
(Overall)
 Cooperation in the work is the primary means for the
success of these projects and the division of labor between
group members have an important role in completion of
the project in a shorter time and accurately, Through our
cooperation in making a range of packaging the food we
were able to create this new idea that will help a lot of
People, especially the people who spend their time on trips.

24. Acknowledgment
Many thanks to my teachers, school and AL-Bairaq team
from Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), Qatar University
for supporting us during our journey with a AL-Bairaq.
Also, I would like to thank the sponsors UNESCO, Ras Gas,
Maersk Oil and Shell.