Compostable and Sustainable product news

January 2007

Happy New Year to all! 2007 promises to be be a very exciting year for us here at Octopus packaging - a number of new compostable and sustainable packaging products are now in trial and will soon be released to market. Do contact us now to discuss your requirements.

December 2006

Octopus Pakcaging are pleased to announce that we have added the following items to our range of compostable and sustainable PLA products:

Metallised PLA and Barrier PLA Film together with a range of adhesives, coatings and inks all of which meet the EN 13432 compostable standards. These developments compliment the range of compostable and sustainable PLA Thermoformings (Trays and Tubs) and Label Stock already available from Octopus Packaging.

November 2006

Following extensive work, Octopus Packaging have received our first order's for two new BioCompostable PLA extrusion coated paper products - compostable and sustainable confectionary bags and cereal box liners.

New Product - Compostable and sustainable Confectionery bag

The Confectionery bag will replace a Polypropylene / Paper bag  (PP/ Paper). The advantage over the traditional PP/Paper is that the PLA coated paper is both compostable and degradable, while the traditional PP/Paper combination is neither compostable nor degradable.

New Product - Compostable and sustainable Cereal Box Liner

The cereal box liner allows the whole material to be recycled or composted unlike the traditional product where currently only the carton can be recycled (if at all) and the plastic sent to landfill.

The PLA / paper combination offers an easy tear opening plus a dead fold which allows the pack to be folded closed after use preventing contamination or spillage in the consumers cupboard.

The bottom line, balance sheet benefit of the compostable and sustainable PLA/paper combintion includes a lower recycling/recovery tax as PLA/paper is classed as paper (other), where as the traditional PP/Paper is classed as a mixed material and attracts the higher tax. Coupled with the cudos for 'going green' the argument for compostable and sustainable is quite compelling.