Britain introduces plastic packaging that can be "thrown away like orange peel"

The UK will launch biodegradable plastic packaging next month, which is designed to be discarded like orange peel.

The United States has already begun to use 100% biodegradable products, and has appointed supplier TIPA to announce partnerships for some British brands in the next few months.

Advanced bioplastic materials

In June 2010, Daphna Nissenbaum, Software Engineer and CEO, and Tal Neuman, Industrial Designer and Senior Vice President of Products, founded TIPA in Israel. The company currently has a large R&D team, a bioplastics manufacturing team, a sales and marketing department, and a subsidiary sales office in the United States.

Products include coextruded high transparency films for fresh food, coffee, bakery products, cereal crushed products, and transparent or non-transparent sealed plastic bags and stand-up pouches for granola bars, chips, snacks, cereals, dry foods, These products have long been sold in the EU and the US.

Nissenbaum told Bakery and Snacks that TIPA's vision is that soft plastic packaging has the same end-of-life attributes as organic waste and still has the same consumer and brand expectations for including fresh produce, chilled and frozen foods and dairy products. The same durability and shelf life of food as ordinary plastic.

“The flexible packaging is not made of pure plastic polymer, but made by mixing several materials, which makes it almost impossible to recycle,” she said.

“Even though some materials used in flexible packaging are biodegradable, the very blending of materials makes the entire package unsuitable for recycling or composting.”

“The vision behind TIPA is to solve the challenge of creating sustainable flexible packaging by creating advanced bioplastic materials. To do this, our company includes experts in chemical and bioplastics, industrial experts and food engineers.”

“We have created a new era of packaging, packaging food in a natural way.”

Nissenbaum added that although bioplastic materials have been around for a long time, they can only be used in agriculture, garbage bags or simple applications because they cannot be successfully put into existing production lines.

“The task is complex and full of difficulties”

She said these materials tend to be more easily broken, more sensitive to heat and humidity, and have poor penetration, yellow color and lack of transparency.

“The task of developing a degradable package from scratch is complex and difficult, not just regulation, but also lack of existing technology and logistics and business development,” Nissenbaum said.

TIPA builds its technology on three steps;

Resin Series - Use existing raw materials in a new way, modify and control their properties, and compound them into resin blends to become new materials with advanced properties.

Membrane Series - The second step is to define a uniquely structured coextruded film (based on the new formulation) to create films with mechanical, optical and barrier properties similar to conventional plastics such as polypropylene and polyethylene. It has developed several types of films for stand-alone applications, barrier properties, sealing and printed films required for food packaging processes.

Laminate Series - The third step is to design high quality laminates that are used today in the industry. High barrier transparent or coated panels that can be printed and applied in existing machinery produce a range of applications such as handbags and zip pockets. The final packaging material can replace ordinary conventional laminates for dry and greasy foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, cold cuts, snacks, and more.

“It took a lot of development time, but today TIPA has developed the first fully compostable eco-friendly barrier film and laminate with the necessary moisture and oxygen barrier properties to meet a range of food shelf life standards. ”

“This breakthrough has made it possible to replace non-recyclable flexible packaging with organic recyclable/compostable packaging. TIPA packaging can not only be transferred from landfills and incineration centers, but also as an added value, they can be used as energy sources for production. Raw materials (such as biogas facilities) or land fertilisers (composting facilities)."

When the co-founders Nissenbaum and Neuman started working together six years ago, they wanted to design a biodegradable water bag (TIPA means "water droplets" in Hebrew). They hired bioplastics experts to find materials suitable for beverage bags, but six months later they were told there was no suitable biodegradable material on the market.

Has the same properties as traditional plastic

They believe that if TIPA biodegradable flexible packaging is to be successful, it must have all the properties of traditional plastics in terms of transparency, tensile strength and shelf life. It must also be fully compostable.

“The basic idea is actually an orange peel. A package that will look like orange peel. A biodegradable package that we can throw into an organic trash can after eating or drinking its contents,” Newman said. .

“We created soft food packaging that, on the one hand, feels like ordinary plastic with the same properties, and on the other hand it biodegrades into fertilizer after consumption and can be used again for soil fertilization.”

“The food industry implements complex, high-quality mechanical standards that make it difficult to come up with a compostable and effective packaging while supporting ecological and functional requirements. This is a technical problem we solve.”

On June 30th, Nissenbaum will deliver a speech entitled “Technology to Solve the Problem of Soft Packaging Waste” at a seminar at Viva Technology in Paris.

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