#home-compostable

Parkside creates home compostable pack for Riverford’s organic tomato range

Good News Notes: “The pack incorporates a fully home compostable duplex laminate for top sealing to paper pulp trays, with the aim of providing an organically recyclable alternative to plastic trays and lidding for Riverford’s organic tomatoes. The design falls under the Parkside Park2Nature portfolio, a TÜV-accredited range of compostable flexible packaging laminates made from renewable…

Seaweed breakthrough in east London could help save planet

Good News Notes: “Science graduate Marcos Ulloa, who did his Masters degree at Queen Mary University, aims to set up Britain’s first commercial land-based seaweed farm to mass produce the substance.   The 27-year-old from Canary Wharf has found a way to use dried or fresh seaweed as wrapping for food products and other uses instead of plastics.  ‘The material can reduce the waste accumulated in…