This document outlines activities completed by students as part of the AL-Bairaq program exploring food packaging materials and design. It describes 7 activities where students: 1) compared biodegradable and non-biodegradable packaging materials, 2) investigated purposes of food package components, 3) analyzed packaging for different foods, 4) evaluated environmental impacts of packaging, 5) researched packaging materials, 6) designed a protective tomato package, and 7) compared insulating properties of materials. It then proposes a tea package product containing a tea bag and sugar stick for easy mixing. The document concludes with acknowledgments for the AL-Bairaq program sponsors.

1. AL-Bairaq
I am Discovering Materials
Food Packaging
Platinum group
Mubarak Sultan Youssef Elkholiefy
Ahmed Abdalla Mohammed Ali

2. Outline
•Activity 1: Comparing packing materials
•·Activity 2: Investigating Food Packaging
•·Activity 3: Analyzing Food Packaging Materials
•·Activity 4: Evaluating the impact of food
packaging on the environment
•·Activity 5: Researching Food Packaging
Materials
•·Activity 6: Designing a protective Package
•·Activity 7: Comparing the insulating properties
of packaging materials
Product idea: The Complete tea .
Introduction

3. Activity 1 Part 1:Comparing
Packaging Materials
Packing Material White Peanut Green Peanut
Kind Of Material Corn Starch Polystyrene
Type Of Material Biodegradable Non-Biodegradable
Conclusion: The white peanut degraded in water while the
green peanut did not degrade.

4. Activity 1 Part 2: Comparing
Packaging Materials.
Distance Green Peanut White Peanut
1M Did Not Crack Did Not Crack
2M Did Crack Did Crack
Conclusion: We cannot pack materials that contain bacteria
and liquids with biodegradable packaging materials because it
will react with it and damage the materials.

5. Activity 2:Investigating Food
Packaging.
Parts Of
The
Package
Purpose Of
Each Part
Of The
Package
Materials
Used In
Each Part
Of The
Package
Purpose
Of Each
Materials
Outer Bag To Protect
The
Popping
Bag
Plastic Moisture tight
Air tight
Transparent
Recyclable
Popping
Bag
To Cook Paper
Aluminum
Can Be
Printed On
Contents To
Consume
Corn
Kernels,
Butter

6. Activity 3: Analyzing Food
Packaging Materials
Type of food
Packaging
Description
Of packaging
Purposes of
packaging
Materials
used in
packaging
Purposes of
each material
Beverage jug To protect
food from
spoiling
Plastic Recyclable
Prepared
food
Box To keep air
out.
Cartoon Recyclable
Can be printed
on
Prepared
food
jar To keep air
out.
Glass
Aluminum
Transparent
Reusable

7. Activity 4 : Evaluating the impact of food
packaging on the environment
product Material
used
Predicte
d
ranking
Total
mass
Mass of
packaging
Mass of
product
packaging
/product
ratio
Ranking
Juice
Cans Aluminum 2 189.6g 9.6g 180ml 0.053 2
Juice
Bottle Plastic 3 217g 17g 200ml 0.085 3
Juice
Carton carton 1 261.7g 11.7g 250ml 0.017 1

8. Activity 5
Researching food packaging materials
Plastic bag Paper bag
Non-Recyclable Recyclable
Plastic Film Kraft Paper
Light weight Heavier than the plastic
bag

9. Activity 6: Designing a protective
Package
height Experimental
tomato
Control
tomato
1M No effect No effect
2M No effect No effect
3M No effect Tomato
damaged

10. Activity 7: Comparing the insulating
properties of packaging materials
min without with
0 74 C 74 C
1 73 C 74 C
2 71 C 73 C
3 68 C 71 C
4 65 C 70 C
5 63 C 68 C
6 60 C 66 C
7 57 C 63 C
8 55 C 60 C
9 54 C 58 C
10 52 C 57 C

11. • The complete tea
Our product is a spoon with a
tea bags at it’s end , the
teabag also contains sugar ,
this spoon is used to infuse
tea and sugar and mix it at the
same time .

12. The complete tea
Hypothesis:
we assumed that if we make a tea
bag that contain sugar and has a rigid
hand so we can use it to mix our tea
also, it will make people’s life easier
especially in trips and offices.

13. The complete tea
Method:attachateasticktoateabag
thatcontainssugarwewillhavedifferent
versionsof ourproduct,withoutsugar,
mediumsugarorextrasugar
Materials:
Teabags
Sugar
Plasticsticks

14. The complete tea
Benefits :
make it easier to make tea
especially for trips or at
offices .
less waste to the
environment due to less
spoons used.

15. • The complete tea
we recommend that our
product will be sponsored
and applied by tea
companies .
Our recommendations :

16.  Conclusion
It was a great experience to
participate with albairaq, we
discovered a lot about food
packaging through experiments.
We learned how to think, search and
make a great product.

17. 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,
Qatar National Commission, Ras Gas, Maersk and
Shell.