ADBioplastics and Iraga Servicios have developed a sustainable packaging for cutlery used in catering for air and ground passenger transport. It is a 100% compostable and bio-based flow pack packaging.
This product maintains the quality characteristics and offers advantages in terms of production, such as reducing the sealing temperature by around 50%. As a consequence, CO2 emissions are reduced both in the manufacturing process of the product and in the packaging process.
Furthermore, the new packaging offers a compostable solution, as the material is certified OK Compost Industrial by TÜV Austria, which verifies that the material disintegrates into its basic components (carbon dioxide and water) within a period of approximately 3 months under industrial compostability conditions. In this way, according to the current recycling circuit, the material can be deposited in the brown (organic) container and then transferred to a composting plant.
The main objective of this agreement has been to offer a more sustainable alternative for shrink-wrapping processes by means of a film supplied by ADBioplastics in the catering of Iraga Servicios’ main passenger transport customers, thus promoting compliance with legislative requirements, innovation and the circular economy.
This film has been obtained from TecnoBi grades of PLA-Premium compostable bioplastic, developed by ADBioplastics. The technology used to manufacture the film is film cast extrusion, resulting in a product with characteristics similar to those of a film made from conventional plastic. PLA-Premium can also be processed on conventional equipment, so it does not require any additional investment in equipment or infrastructure.
