I can see this playing out in one of two ways:
1. Suddenly shelf lives are massively extended. I think this would be a good thing.
2. Shelf lives are decreased to accommodate degradable packaging.
Given the people who are in the food supply chain are probably going to be sourcing the same packaging from maybe 2-3 vendors, I don’t see anyone able to differentiate themselves on packaging tech.
> shelf lives are massively extended. I think this would be a good thing.
50 years ago many fruits and vegetables had a lot shorter shelf life, however that has been greatly extended due to selected breeding. For example tomatoes used to have a shelf life of around 3 days, but now it's 3 weeks or more.
The disadvantage of this is that now there are a few varieties that dominate what you can buy in supermarkets, and they are optimized for economic features. This means other features like taste and nutrient content are a lot worse than it was 50 years ago.
Given the people who are in the food supply chain are probably going to be sourcing the same packaging from maybe 2-3 vendors, I don’t see anyone able to differentiate themselves on packaging tech.