Packaging that supports a healthy environment from creation to disposal

Single-use plastics are destroying our ocean and land ecosystems, with 8 million metric tons of plastic added to the ocean every year (Source: NOAA). At the same time, more microplastics are being absorbed into the food chain with harmful health outcomes. Plastic is also very carbon intensive to produce, emitting GHGs at every step in the production and consumption cycle, from cradle to grave. It’s time to move away from plastic and particularly single-use plastics, in our food system and beyond. The challenge to-date has been the performance, in functionality and price, of alternatives, and supportive regulatory frameworks to incentivise transition.
Europe had been a leader in supporting this transition. The Single-Use Plastics Directive includes a commitment to ban certain single-use plastic items by 2021, to achieve 90% collection of plastic bottles by 2029 and to apply the polluter-pays principle more stringently in this sector (Source: EU Plastics Directive).