Snact and Tipa partner on compostable packaging
Snact, a UK social enterprise making snacks from surplus product, has chosen to roll out Tipa’s compostable and flexible packaging for its product range to help tackle food waste.
Announced at the PPMA Total Show 2016 in Birmingham, the brand confirmed it collaborated with Tipa to ensure its packaging matches the ethos of the company, promoting sustainability and tackling the causes of food waste.
Made in the UK using 100% fruit, Snact’s range of fruit jerky snacks are now packaged using Tipa’s fully compostable, flexible packaging that is said to offer the same end of life organic waste properties as the fruit jerky it wraps. According to Tipa, the packaging is just as durable and impermeable as ordinary plastic packaging. However, unlike other commonly used materials on the market, it biologically decomposes within 180 days and becomes a fertiliser for soil, behaving similarly to an orange peel.
In tests run by Tipa’s labs to simulate home composting conditions, the new Snact packaging was seen to decompose in just 24 weeks.
With most commonly available laminates for food packaging today being non-recyclable, Tipa believes the partnership marks a significant step for both brands as they move to a truly holistic solution to significantly reduce the unsustainable volume of non-recyclable waste currently generated by the industry. It is estimated that over 9.6 million tonnes of plastic waste is sent to landfill every year in Europe.
Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and co founder of Tipa, says, “Our partnership with Snact marks a first step in the UK market. We’re currently trialling our products with a number of UK brands within the grocery retail sector and hope to see further partnerships announced as brands recognise the benefits of our technology.
“Working with such an eco conscious brand like Snact was a natural fit for us and we’re excited to see the roll out of our fully compostable, flexible packaging in support of such a worthy brand in the fight against food waste.”
Available for a range of packaging formats and products, Tipa’s products currently comprise standalone and printed coextruded high-transparent cast films, which are sealable and printable and typically used for the packaging of fresh produce, bakery and grain-mill products.
