In recent decades, synthetic polymers (plastics) have gradually taken over the packaging market owing to their lower price, better durability, and excellent waterproof performance. Most of these plastic packages are non-degradable and considerably take more than 100 years to decompose, raising food safety concerns and environmental pollution issues (Briassoulis and Giannoulis,
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