The advent of plastic and the gratuitous displacement of traditional food packaging in Singapore (1950s – 1990s)

• Main Author: Benedict, Claudia Marianne
• Other Authors: Miles Alexander Powell
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology::Social history and conditions; Social sciences::Geography::Human ecology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137540
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis provides a historical assessment on the shift from using traditional methods of food packaging to plastic packaging in Singapore from the 1950s - 1990s. Currently, single-use plastic food packaging is found everywhere in various eating establishments and is a pressing issue because it ma...