Category: Food Waste Awareness
How Resealable Packaging Can Help You Live Healthier
January is often a time of reflection. After a particularly hard year, many of us hope that 2021 will bring us back to life as we know it. A lot has changed in the past 12 months. We had to learn to rely on technology in communicating with others, switch to working from home when possible, and shop online more than ever before. It has not ...
Why resealable packaging can help reduce food waste
from the government has prompted UK’s major supermarkets and more than 100 of the biggest food companies to sign a pledge to drive down food waste. Companies have signed a pledge to help halve food waste by 2030 and raise public awareness through a week of action. Food waste has become a significant topic throughout the past year as ...
Millennials driving demand for on-the-go and sustainable packaging
Millennials have been a motivating force for retailers to become environmentally sustainable with their products and packaging. Millennials believe packaging to be an influential consideration when purchasing products. Sustainability throughout the whole supply chain is a decisive factor and even packaging material is seen as part of the brand ...
Reducing food waste with resealable packaging
The environment has been a prevalent topic this year, prompting supermarkets and manufacturers to commit to reducing waste within the next few years. Many companies have signed up to the , a voluntary agreement making food and drink production and consumption more sustainable. Food production and food waste is one of the leading contributors ...
Reducing Packaging Waste with Resealable Packaging
Packaging that is easy to open, store and that can be reused is important for consumers. According to Flexible Packaging Association, 66% of Fast Moving Consumer Goods consumers think that packaging should be easy to store. And at the same time it should be reusable. We go further to explore how effective resalable packaging application ...
Why resealable packaging will be one of the key trends for 2018?
Mintel, the world’s leading market intelligence agency, has recently published five global packaging trends for 2018. These include the growing role of packaging in reducing food and product waste, the importance of clear on-pack messaging and the need to provide customers with an enhanced eCommerce experience. We would like to add one ...
Reducing food waste: How packaging can help
Did you know Glasgow households waste 41,000 tonnes of food - the equivalent to throwing away around 90 million meals each year? reports the average Glasgow household bins around 7,900 tonnes of fresh vegetables and salad and 2,500 tonnes of meat each year. The city also throws away over 236,000 slices of bread a year and wastes 9,852 eggs ...
Fighting food waste – How Reseal-it® can help
British households throw away 7.3m tonnes of food and drink each year, which represents 71% of the total food waste produced in the UK. Most of it is preventable. Avoidable food waste costs an average British family £700 a year or almost £60 a month – money that could be better spent elsewhere. Much of the food and drink that we throw ...
Reducing food waste at home with resealable packaging
There are many things that have a negative impact on our planet, one of them is food waste. Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates the total amount of food waste in the UK at an alarming 10 million tonnes. This equates to over £17 billion a year, and amounts to about 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. Shocking, but ...
