4 eco-friendly food packaging:

As consumers’ environmental awareness continues to increase, food and beverages in recyclable packaging have become a new consumer trend. This has also prompted companies to increase their research and development efforts on environmentally friendly materials, to provide consumers with products with the higher added value of “green”.

Bio-based, recyclable and compostable food packaging materials are gradually emerging and become the focus of the industry. Now let’s introduce 4 types of environmentally friendly food packaging:

1.Compostable food packaging:

compostable plastic wrap:
As the first certified compostable plastic wrap, Nature Fresh combines excellent breathability, high clarity, and outstanding mechanical properties for automatic packaging, helping to extend the shelf life of fresh food.
Nature Fresh is food contact grade according to US and European standards. Compared to alternatives to polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic wrap such as polyethylene (PE), NatureFresh plastic wrap helps keep food fresh for longer. This means that the product reduces greenhouse gas emissions from food production, transportation, and final disposal.
Nature Fresh wrap is a certified compostable material that can replace the PVC and polyethylene wraps currently used in fresh food packaging. The overall performance of the cling film is comparable to that of PVC films, such as mechanical properties such as tensile strength and elongation at break, breathability, transparency, and appearance properties such as elastic recovery and anti-fogging.

2.Biodegradable food packaging，What are biodegradable food packaging materials?

Biodegradable can be broken down organically (essentially eaten by microorganisms) and converted into biomass, gas or water. The most common is cornstarch degradable packaging. Some company have use Seaweed and mushrooms to make biodegradable packaging. Although this term is very popular under the trend of global environmental protection, Only a few big brands are trying to use it at present.

For example, in China, the government proposes to fully use degradable packaging by 2025, but currently in 2022, few companies Can increase the cost to purchase degradable packaging. Some big brands like McDonald’s and KFC will purchase paper straws, and some supermarket brands will purchase degradable plastic bags.

Degradable plastic bags are actually made of chemical formulas, and some components may take 50-100 years to fully decompose. Currently this product is not very mature. Of course we can recommend the following degradable food packaging:

3.Recyclable food packaging

We can process and reuse recyclable packaging. For example, co-extruded materials which are composed of nylon and PE particles. We can recycle and then melt at high temperature again, then blow the film.

This material does not require glue compounding, so it is environmentally friendly, and the production process does not produce a lot of odor. Now European and American countries are gradually replacing composite materials with co-extrusion technology of high-barrier nylon PE and EVOH materials.

This is a big challenge to China’s packaging manufacturing industry. After all, China is a big manufacturing country and its R&D capabilities are constantly improving. Opportunities and challenges coexist.
We recommend the following recyclable food flexible packaging:

Returnable packaging is used for industrial packaging. However, reusable packaging is suitable for end-home consumers. For example, our household refrigerator zipper fresh-keeping bags are reusable packaging.
Nestle officially announced in 2018 that packaging materials will be fully recyclable or reusable by 2025. Nestlé focuses on three core areas: eliminating non-recyclable plastics; encouraging the use of plastics with higher recycling rates, and eliminating or changing Complex composite packaging.
silicone zipper packaging bag is more and more popular, we can washing and use for many years. the famous brand is ziplock.

4.Eco-friendly packaging for pet food

More and more people advocated to replace wet food with pet rough food, which is wasteful and has a short shelf life. as well as a burden on the environment. Now pet packaging is also starting to use reusable and recyclable plastic materials for packaging groceries.

What food packaging is the most environmentally friendly?

At present, there is no absolute and unified answer. Many packaging companies start to research different eco-packagp materials.

food eco packa has many advantages, such as: low price, economical savings, good protection performance, good production flexibility, convenient storage, and transportation, easy shape Decoration, and no pollution to the contents. So paper packaging is the best recommendation.