Growing world population requires more and more foods. It
consequently leads to increasing amount of packaging wastes such
as bottles, boxes, foils (Gomez et al., 2009 ). Contribution of packaging
material to the entire environmental impact of the food value
chain might be up to 45% depending on the sort of food and
packaging material (Del Borghi et al., 2014; Meneses et al., 2012).
That shows the significant role of packaging not only from sanitary
point of view, but also with respect to environmental burdens and
sustainability.
The European Commission obligates the member states to
harmonise the waste management and implement the waste hierarchy
in national regulation (EC, 2008a). It means to prefer the
waste prevention, re-use and material recycling to incineration or
landfill. Furthermore, the directive on packaging wastes requires
the recycling of packaging materials by up to 45% (EC, 1994).
Considering that the above-mentioned EC/98/2008 directive
stresses the importance of human health protection in waste