This project was done by Group Researchers from Wakra Independent School under the supervision from AL-Bairaq.

1. AL-Bairaq
I am Discovering Materials
Food Packaging
Researchers group
Basant Moustafa Dana alobaidli
Maryam Al-Ibrahim Jana Nageh

2. Outline• Introduction
• 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 package
• Activity6: comparing the isolating prosperities of packaging
materials
• Product Idea

3. Introduction
Can you bring your food in your hands? Do you think about the food
packaging ?
A lot of care was given to this “amazing subject” , if you were thinking why
? Or how ? Or even what? So you must look through our presentation to get
the idea .

4. investigating food packaging :
Objective:
Discovering a package of microwave popcorn .
Packaging material Purpose
Of the materials
paper Easy to collapse to contain the
popped corn
Aluminum It combines the heat in one spot to
cook it easier
Result :
Conclusion:
We learn that the microwaves electromagnetic waves move the
food molecules fast , so it produce heat energy and the
aluminum piece in the popcorn packaging combines it to cook
the corn easily and fast

5. Analyzing food packaging materials :
Objective:
know more about food packaging and its properties
Result :
Type of food Description
of packaging
purpose of packaging Material
used
Purpose of each
materials
beverages can To keep food from
spoiling
To keep air or
moisture
Aluminum Recyclable
Printable
Light weight
Easy to stake
Prepared
food
box To keep food from
spoiling
To be easy for
storing
To keep air or
moisture
Carton
Aluminum
Recyclable
Printable
Light weight
Easy to stake
inexpensive
beverages bottle To keep food from
spoiling
To keep air or
moisture
plastic Reused
Recyclable
Printable
Conclusion:
We learn that the
different types of
packaging
materials have
special properties
we use it according
to it .

6. Evaluating the impact of food packaging on
environment :
Objective:
look at which packaging uses the fewest resources and produces the least waste.
Result:
product product
descriptio
n
Total
mass of
packaging
product
mass of
packaging
mass of
product
Packaging
: product
Plastic beverages 1554 g 54g 1500ml 0.036
Glass beverages 358g 158g 200ml 0.79
Plastic Prepared
food
199g 43g 156 g 0.276
conclusion: plastic
gives the least ratio

7. researching food packaging materials
Objective:
research about the cycle of the plastic and paper.
Result:
Paper plastic
biodegradable Non biodegradable
Decompose in a natural process doesn’t Decompose
Made of wood fibers Made of petroleum
It’s resource is renewable It’s resource is nonrenewable
It takes more energy to manufacture
and dispose
Take less
conclusion:
The paper is
environmentally friendly but
it takes a lot of energy to
make otherwise the plastic.

8. Designing a protective package
Objective:
Designing a protective package and find out what’s the special
properties about it.
Descrip
tion of
the
tomato
50cm 1m 1.5m 2m 2.5m
Experi
mental
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn't’
broke
broke
control didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
broke
Result:
conclusion:
the packaging tomatoes broke from
2,5m with a force and it’s mass was
just 6 g.
Types of The
foam
50cm 1m 1.5m 2m 2.5m
Biodegradable didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
broke
non
Biodegradable
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
didn’t
broke
broke
conclusion:
both foam have The same protect but
the non biodegradable foam it did not
decompose

9. comparing the insolating prosperities of
packaging materials
Objective:
Find out the best insulator and it’s materials proprieties
Result:
0 min 2min 4min 6min 8mi
n
Experimenta
l
85 85 85 80 80
control 80 75 75 70 70
conclusion:
our insulator was good because it
kept the heat for longer time than
the other

10. The smartest package
Final project

11. Introduction :
All the restaurant spend a lot of money to package their food , starting
from the plastic bags to the papers container and soda cans ,it isn’t just
wasting money but it makes buying food very hard to costumer to carry
the burger ,cola and the chips in the same time and in a different
packaging .

12. This project will be very important to the community especially the
Qatari society that depends approximately on restaurant’s food
because of it is natural .
The special thing about this smart packaging that’s very useful and self
recyclable it also inexpensive and made of perfect materials.
We use the biodegradable foam and non biodegradable one we
depend in our project on the experiment about the eggs that we had
done it with the bairaq team .

13. Designing a project have unique properties :
It will be self –getting rid o it .
It will decrease the used material
It will help the costumers and the restaurant's workers
It will be cheap light and effective

14. 1- we expect that our smart package will decrease the used material ,
the waste and the cost .
2- we expect that our smart package will be self recyclable.
3-we expect that our smart package will make buying food easy to the
customers

15. 1) material:
•Biodegradable foam
•non Biodegradable plastic
•(we make a model by foam)
2) method:
*experiment to discover how it’s easy to decompose by self way .

16. Our project will be used widely in the restaurants and the factors

17. we recommend to use our project widely in all restaurants in Qatar and
all over the world.
And because every thing have better and best so we recommend to
keep making investigation about it to improve it .