Tag: packaging

MONTEREY, CA – Markon Cooperative Inc., Salinas, CA, showed its new 100 percent recyclable cardboard clamshell for its strawberries at the Produce Marketing Association’s Foodservice Expo July 27.

I don’t think I’ve heard the word plastic mentioned so many times in the space of two days, before I attended the Organic Produce Summit July 10-11.

Seventy-two entries were submitted in 21 classes with Yerecic winning in Class 21 for Booklet Labels

Have you ever bought a seedless cucumber WITHOUT the plastic wrap?

In Episode 2 of Ideas Ripe for the Picking, we discuss grocers ditching plastic packaging, and the business case for packaged produce.

Morrisons is to become the first British supermarket to roll-out plastic free fruit and veg areas in many of its stores. Customers will be able to choose from up to 127 varieties of fruit and veg - and buy them loose or put them in recyclable paper bags.

The company is the first U.S. retailer to remove plastic straws chain-wide.

As a ‘significant step’ towards reducing its packaging imprint, banana importers Fyffes has introduced new, sustainable and fully recyclable paper banding for use in wrapping its Organic Fairtrade bananas in selected markets.