How do you know the CO2e impact of your plastic packaging?

In a competitive marketplace, packaging has to efficiently protect food, while attracting customers, but there is an increasing focus on its sustainability credentials. Many claims are made, but Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland asks: 'How do you know the CO₂e impact of your plastic packaging?’, and goes on to question how you can properly know what percentage of post-consumer waste a pack contains, will it be liable for the UK plastic packaging tax, and does it have EU food approval? 

“Two years ago, with a UK first – the European Food Safety Authority approved the decontamination process used at our factory in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials, and we are now compliant with EU Regulation 2022/1616,” says Rachel.  “We have also recently invested in the latest flatbed technology to expand our capabilities into the EU food approved rPET tray market.” 

As a business, Greiner Packaging takes a collective industry position and wherever possible, leads through example. We are members of RECOUP, the official RecyClass auditor for rigid plastic packaging in the UK, and we were one of the founding members of the UK Plastics Pact,” Rachel concludes. "Since Greiner Packaging first introduced its K3^® cardboard-plastic innovation in 2007, there has been continuous investment at our UK manufacturing facility. But, alongside investing to create new packaging solutions, there has been a constant focus on improving our environmental sustainability performance and pursuing our goal to achieve a circular economy.”