As the world’s population continues to expand and lifestyle becomes increasingly industrialized, ensuring efficient food productionFood production, effective packaging, and maintaining quality standards have become critically important. Proper food packagingFood packaging aims to reduce spoilage and extend shelf lifeShelf life extension. Most packaging materials, which are petroleum-based and derived from its byproducts, generate non-degradable waste, leading to pollution of water, air, and soil, as well as the production of greenhouse gasesGreenhouse gases. As environmental concerns increase, there is a stronger shift toward natural biopolymersBiopolymers as replacements for industrial polymersIndustrial polymers. Natural biopolymers are highly valuable due to their biodegradabilityBiodegradability, environmental compatibility, antimicrobial properties, and high strength, attracting significant attention from researchers and scientists today. Biopolymers are derived from diverse sources such as plants, animals, and microbesMicrobes, and they find applications in a wide range of industries, such as agriculture, medicine, pharmaceutical production, and packaging solutions. Among the challenges of using biopolymersBiopolymers in industry are their expensive production processes, material weaknesses, and the demand for improving their mechanical strengthMechanical strength and thermal characteristics. Nevertheless, scientists are addressing these functional issues through various methods, such as blending biopolymers with each other, incorporating nanomaterialsNanomaterials, and other innovative approaches. Therefore, in numerous fields, especially within packaging applications, the use of biopolymersBiopolymers and new technologies can create sustainable and innovative opportunities to enhance the safety, quality, and shelf life of food items while minimizing waste generation.