FEEDING THE WORLD
The United Nations estimates that 25,000 all over the world die from malnutrition and related causes every day. And nearly 1 billion of the world’s 7 billion people go to bed hungry. Considering that by 2050 the global population is expected to grow to over 9 billion, re-imagining food security requires addressing three challenges.
- Food Access: We produce more than enough food to feed the planet today, yet hundreds of millions starve while others struggle with obesity and nutritional imbalance.
- Food Safety: Even with significant advances in technology and distribution, food contamination is still a large societal problem with fatal consequences.
- Food Waste: We throw away billions of tons of food a year that rot in landfills and release methane gas into the atmosphere.
So it’s obvious, the solution is not to grow more food. It’s to make sure the food we grow makes it to the table before it spoils. Sealed Air has the expertise and the technology to assure that hard-won harvests are not lost. Our packaging solutions can double the shelf life of foods like fresh pasta and extend that of meat from days to weeks. We can enhance sanitation through the entire supply chain from farm to fork and offer education about proper food storage, handling and cooking. Our innovations help promise a growing world that its food supply will be more plentiful, safer and less wasteful.