From time to time companies launch products that have the chance to make a real impact on the way we view things. For the food packaging industry, this is one of those times. Generations is the very first of its kind; foam food service packaging that is produced using 25% post consumer recycled content. What…
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Category: Environment
Choose to Save, Choose Genpak!
The image to the right encompasses our mission in the sustainable effort and has been designed to appear on our 100% compostable show bag debuting this month! Each new Affordable, Earth-Friendly line is Sustainable (designed to meet current needs without compromising the needs of future generations), using the 3R approach of Reduce (practice of doing…
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A Typical Phone Call
Phone Rings… Genpaker – Hello this is Genpak Caller – Hi my name is Jane and my 10 year old son attending our local school that is using your 5 compartment serving trays in their cafeteria. Genpaker – Hey that is fantastic! Caller – Well not so fast. His science teacher has told the class…
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Sustainability
Over the last couple of days I attended a conference put on by Nature Works, who is a domestic supplier of PLA. PLA (polylactic acid) is an alternative resin source made entirely from corn and is meant to be used in replacement of PET, OPS and other clear petrochemical based resins. This conference came off…
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Why buy products made from PCR?
The Federal Trade Commission defines recycled content materials as those that have been recovered or diverted from the solid waste stream. Recycled content can be broken into two categories. Post consumer and pre-consumer, which may also be referred to as post industrial. Post consumer content, as its name implies, are materials that have been used…
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Packaging in the Crosshairs
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of bad press regarding packaging, especially food service packaging. There have been venomous articles written ranging from packaging filling up landfills to packaging that causes erectile dysfunction (no lie, just saw that one yesterday). Some writings do have valid points, but never really tell the whole story. Take the landfill debate for instance. It is…
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