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Eco-friendly Coffee Packaging - Why Choose Recyclable Pouch? Why Biodegradable Pouch?

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Eco-friendly Coffee Packaging - Why Choose Recyclable Pouch? Why Biodegradable Pouch? With the environment pollution getting worse, plastic waste has become one of the biggest problems in our life. Coffee as the most popular beverage in the world, what changes have been made to the coffee packaging and why biodegradable pouch and recyclable pouch should be encouraged for coffee packaging ?   The Change of Coffee Packaging: Flat bottom pouch has been the new kid on the block. Flat bottom pouch is a combination of stand up pouch and side gusset pouch, making it outstanding in terms of printing formats and convenience. Even though it costs highest among all pouch styles, flat bottom pouch is still getting more and more popular for the coffee packaging high-end companies.   Why Recyclable Pouch ? When we recycle, materials are converted into new products, reducing the need to consume natural resources which will help to protect natural habitats for the future.   Why Bi

Packaging for The Growing Organic and Natural Foods/ Powder Market

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The natural food market has grown tremendously in the last few years. An increase consumer demand for natural products means more companies are incorporating natural packaging and all-natural food items into their product lines.   Because many natural foods are slightly higher-priced than their non-health counterparts, packaging for these products needs to be reflective of the same quality standards. To differentiate themselves, natural foods, health foods and goods producers not only have to compete with other organic products, but also with non-organic products on the market. For many natural food processors, reducing the environmental impact of their products and packaging is a key piece of the mission statement.   PureChimp Has Launched Natural Matcha with 100% Biodegradable Pouches   Pure Chimp® sells the best Matcha green tea & 100% natural skin care in the UK. Pure Chimp’s owner Dean came across matcha tea at a training course to improve energy levels at work. H

Exploring Mono-plastic Recyclable Pouches

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Sustainability is both a challenge and an opportunity to the flexible packaging industry. Recyclable pouches made from mono-plastic multilayer structures, utilizing new resins and techniques, appear to be major competitors against glass, metal, and multi-material film structures.   Demand for mono-materials in packaging has been growing as the industry moves from a linear to a circular economy. What are the challenges and possible solutions of mono-plastic pouches?   What lies behind the growth in the use of mono-plastics in the flexible packaging?   Nowadays, there is a paradigm change, from a linear to a circular economy, to ensure there’s enough food, water and prosperity in 2050. There’s a worldwide ban on unsustainable packaging materials with a timeline set forth. For example, according to the European Strategy for plastics in circular economy, in 2030 all plastic packaging must be recyclable. Taking this into consideration, the packaging industry has to make great e

Are you getting truly Eco-friendly Child Resistant cannabis packaging?

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Packaging is a huge part of cannabis product compliance, but oftentimes compliant packages are made from materials that will sit in a landfill for eternity. The Cannabis and CBD industries have a major plastic problem. When it comes to choosing sustainable packaging, the options can be overwhelming. What kind of eco-friendly child resistant packaging will you consider for your cannabis products?   Child Resistant Paper Tube? The CR paper tube features a small button that must be pushed when pulling the tube apart from its lid. This packaging is customizable and made from recyclable paper. However this packaging is not completely air-tight, without enough barrier performance.   Child Resistant Recyclable pouch? The bags themselves are also made of mono plastic and are fully recyclable as well. It has high barrier to keep the product as fresh as possible and smell proof, which you can find in Best packaging solution. All options allow for an abundance of branding and market

What are the required circumstances for a compostable product to compost?

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Industrial composting is an established process with commonly agreed requirements concerning temperature and timeframe for biodegradable waste to metabolise to stable, sanitised products (biomass) to be used in agriculture (humus/fertiliser). This process takes place in industrial or municipal composting plants. These plants provide controlled conditions, i.e. controlled temperatures, humidity, aeration, etc. for a quick and safe composting process. The criteria for the industrial compostability of packaging are set out in the European standard EN 13432. EN 13432 requires the compostable plastics to disintegrate after 12 weeks and completely biodegrade after six months. That means that 90 percent or more of the plastic material will have been converted to CO2. The remaining share is converted into water and biomass – i.e. valuable compost. Materials and products complying with this standard can be certified and labelled accordingly. There is currently no international standard spec

4 Inevitable Packaging Changes After COVID-19

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  The global pandemic has had a dramatic impact on perceptions of packaging. At the beginning of the year, concerns around ocean plastics, environmental tradeoffs, and challenging recycling economics dominated headlines and created a general skepticism on the value of packaging and the viability of recycling. But then the pandemic took hold and packaging has since been hailed as a key tool to ensure health and safety.   While it’s clear that the value of packaging is now more publicly recognized, prior concerns haven’t gone away. During this “great pause,” the packaging industry must reflect and prepare, ensuring that the packaging value chain offers even more value to our environment and society — and can play a key role within the economic restructuring our world will desperately need.   Here are four ways we believe the packaging value chain is likely to change post-COVID-19 and how we can prepare to help create a more robust future.   1. Consumers may appreciate the val

Are Your Coffee Bags Eco Friendly?

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As conscientious food choices go, coffee offers us a lot of them. Most visibly, in the areas of fair or direct trade, and sustainable farming. It’s glad to see some coffee roaster have worked very hard to reduce the emissions by using more eco roaster. But what about the waste?   Though coffee is itself an organic, biodegradable product (it's fruit!) few of us live near enough to the source to eliminate the necessary evil of packaging. Coffee bags are usually made out of several layers of different types of material. These usually include, plastic, foil and paper. Foil is the worst material that will cause worse overall impact on emissions and overall human health. How to pack greener? Let’s remove the foil. So are Recyclable pouches and compostable pouches. Recyclable Pouch : A bag that can be collected and reprocessed to produce new pouch or new product, only mono type products are recyclable. Some coffee bags are now made entirely from plastic that can be recycled. They

What You Need To Know about Recyclable Pouch Before Packing Greener

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Why Recyclable Pouches Are the Future Today, recyclable pouches are becoming more and more mainstream. Foreign and domestic pressures, as well as consumers’ demand for more earth-friendly options, are spurring countries to take a look at the issue of waste and recycling and find feasible solutions. Consumer-packaged goods companies (CPGs) are getting behind the movement too. Unilever, NestlĂ©, Mars, PepsiCo., and others have committed to using 100% recyclable, reusable, or compostable packaging by 2025. Coca-Cola is even supporting recycling infrastructure and programs across the U.S., as well as increasing recycling bin access and education for consumers.  According to Mintel, 52% of U.S. food shoppers prefer to buy foods with minimal or no packaging to reduce packaging waste. And in a global survey conducted by Nielsen, consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable products.  Thirty-eight percent are willing to pay more for products made with sustainable materials, and 30%

Why Coffee Packaging Should Choose Biodegradable Pouch?

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As we know environmental concerns are making a major impact on today’s business world. More and more businesses worldwide are looking for ways to reduce their environmental footprint. As a result, we are witnessing a growing popularity of eco-friendly alternatives to traditional packaging. Sustainable packaging (a.k.a. green or biodegradable packaging ) has numerous benefits for businesses, customers, as well as our one and only planet. However, Sustainability/Biodegradable has become a hot topic in the specialty coffee packaging industries. In 2018, the UN predicted that if consumption and waste management don’t change, the world will be home to some 12 billion tonnes of plastic waste by 2050. Coffee businesses around the world have been focusing on creating a more sustainable coffee packaging , circular economy. They do this by adding value to products and materials they use. Therefore, biodegradable pouch become one of the most popular sustainable packaging. What is the Biodeg