Why is compostable packaging perfect for foodservice?
Packaging used in the food service industry usually ends up being fairly contaminated with food residues. This makes recycling impractical, if not impossible, especially for fibre-based products. In addition, scraping food waste off packaging into another bin isn’t always everyone’s priority, which results in both ending up in landfill.
Using compostable packaging for serving food means that at the end of a meal, everything can go in a single bin, the organics one. This allows to capture a lot more food waste and to reduce contamination in other recycling streams.
In fact, there is an opportunity to compost a larger portion of the 1,000,000 tonnes of organic waste generated by the foodservice and hospitality sector in Australia while simultaneously recovering and recycling an estimated 10 billion individual single-use foodservice disposables!
So whether it be for convenience, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to improve soil health or to fight plastic pollution, compostable packaging is the future of the food service industry.