Lorapack towards green solutions

Sustainable packaging

HOW TO MAKE YOUR PACKAGING SUSTAINABLE.

Making sustainable products is essential to protecting the environment and reducing environmental impact. A key strategy is to avoid the use of additional packaging, promoting the concept of “zero packaging”.

  1. Flexible packaging suitable for separate waste collection: To promote sustainability, it is essential to design small-sized products so that they can be contained in flexible and easily recyclable packaging. This will reduce the use of materials and the accumulation of waste.

  2. Use of recycled, biodegradable and renewable materials: Another fundamental step to create ecological products is the use of recycled and biodegradable materials for packaging. These materials can be easily disposed of and reused, reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill. Furthermore, the use of materials from renewable sources helps reduce the impact on the environment, since their production has fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

Eco-design and the circular economy: Eco-design is an essential practice for creating ecological products. It is about integrating the concept of sustainability from the beginning of the design process, taking into account the entire life cycle of the product. This includes choosing eco-friendly materials, being easy to disassemble for recycling and optimizing energy efficiency during use.

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AND IN THE AGRICULTURAL FOOD?

  • The crucial challenge lies in finding packaging solutions that satisfy two fundamental requirements: ensuring the adequate preservation of products and safety for contact with food, while at the same time minimizing environmental impact.
  • Food packaging alternatives to plastic are multiplying, using new materials: wood fibres,
    nano-clays, potato starch, lignin, mushrooms, oat hulls, algae. Corrugated cardboard is increasingly widespread in food.

Sustainable packaging must be “talking”, i.e. equipped with smart solutions to ensure:

  • authenticity of the product
  • integrity of the packaging and tampering and anti-theft tests, traceability
  • equipped with indicators (time-temperature, oxygen, microorganisms) which allow us to avoid food waste and identify and speed up the
    redistribution of expiring foodstuffs towards solidarity circuits.
GREEN PACKAGING REVOLUTION

HERE ARE 3 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD INVEST IN GREEN PACKAGING

1. Companies that use sustainable packaging improve brand reputation and obtain an image and economic return
2. 9 out of 10 leaders are aware that young consumers tend to criticize companies without a program to protect the planet (or that do green-washing, pretending to adopt environmental strategies only for marketing reasons) *ref. recent market survey
published on Forbes
3. 56% declare that packaging is a litmus test for trusting the sustainability of a brand

Our goal is to promote the transition towards a circular economy, which is why all our packaging machines are able to work with ecological material. Discover our range of Lorapack packaging machines.