Five Disruptive Start-ups in Packaging innovation

Sustainable packaging deals with the sourcing, development, and use of packaging solutions having no environmental impact. Many consumers are moreover demanding more sustainable packaging materials. The momentum has created a good chance for sustainable packaging innovation where an increasing number of start-ups are innovating with cutting-edge and eco-friendly solutions.

Notable disruptive start-ups

Few of the companies developing innovative sustainable packaging solutions in the food industry:

Bioplas

The company, founded in 2014, is a Sydney-based start-up producing compostable waste bags for food waste collection, agricultural mulch film, and more from certified Mater-Bi, raw materials, and compostable inks
Bioplas proprietary products are innovated and developed by Plastral Pty Ltd, a fully owned Australian company. Bioplas products are made from certified Mater-Bi raw materials and compostable inks
Bioplas materials have usable properties and are almost equal in characteristics to traditional plastics, recognized as biodegradable and compostable
Bioplas products are offered in many variations for diverse film applications, sheet products, paper coating, and injection moldings

Bioplas innovative products are produced from Mater-Bi, which are based on plant components and biodegradable polymers totally and somewhat generated from renewable resources. The plant components are in varieties like cellulose, glycerin, natural fillers, and non-genetically modified starch obtained from various crops and are extracted from plantations. The raw material utilized is vegetable oil for polymers coming from non-genetically modified crops.

Eggplant

The company is an Italian start-up founded in 2013, producing a biodegradable plastic alternative utilizing a zero-waste process and a non-toxic approach, which is essential for consumer packaged goods and agriculture
The company lends advanced bioplastic-based solutions counting on proprietary technology to reuse wastewater to inculcate high-performance bioplastics through a zero-waste process
Eggplant solves two massive environmental and social problems: wastewater disposal and pollution from traditional hydrocarbons-based plastics. Eggplant aims to disintegrate the waste with the aim to reuse waste as raw material to provide smart and sustainable products

The start-up provides PHB (Polyhydroxybutyrate) bioplastics that are completely bio-derived and biodegradable plastic for various applications in industries like electronics, cosmetics, BioMed, aerospace, consumer, agriculture packaging, etc. The company designed proprietary smart technology platforms based on its bioplastics, such as soft bio-composition, conductive bioplastics, high-tech electronic devices, active packaging, and medical devices.

No Waste Technology

NoW technology is working on laminated paper utilized routinely in convenience food packaging by offering laminated papers that are 100% recyclable and sustainable
NoW technology allows the recycling of laminated paper-based products, also products with plastic films and coatings

NoW technology has many applications. It can be used with aluminium foil laminated papers in gums and paper wrappers, used in food packaging needing transparent plastic film, used in replacing poly-coated paper in sugar packaging with sustainable alternative, and also used with Kraft paper and glossy paper substrates in products laminated with metalized plastic film. Wax, silicone, and greaseproof paper, primarily used for NoW technology, are used in baking, cooking, and wrapping applications.

Pond Biomaterials

The company is a Danish start-up producing bio resin systems where claims are 100% bio-based and mainly biodegradable in nature
Pond produces bio resin systems mainly 100% bio-based and fully bio-degradable. They are suitable to bind many types of natural fibers like flax, hemp, pineapple, palm leaves, cotton, banana, and jute, which results in designing 100 % biodegradable products
Strength properties achieved in the end product make the Pond resin systems specific and unique from other bio-based resins
The Pond bio-resin system is used to replace traditional crude-oil resins in many industries, including the automotive, wind power, airplane, textile, construction, bottling, and plastic packaging industry

Applications with bio-resin include plant walls (using air-lay or wet-lay technique plants to grow as plant walls), wind turbines (able to create wind turbine blades using POND BIO NON WOVEN with natural fabrics in compression molding), furniture (using different molding techniques like needle-punching and injection-molding to design any type of furniture) and in the packaging (using POND BIO GARNULATE using the injection-molding technique). A variety of packaging solutions can be manufactured for industries.

Recycling Technologies Ltd

This start-up is founded in 2011, providing a solution to chemically recycle end-of-life plastic back to a crude oil equivalent called Plaxx, a synthetic oil having many industrial applications
The plastics that are not consistently recycled, like soft and flexible packaging (e.g., films), multi-layered and laminated plastics (e.g., crisp packets), and the complex or even contaminated plastics (e.g., food trays) are processed by RT7000
Many varieties of plastics can be recycled with the help of present methods. The RT7000 provides the solution by preventing unnecessary transportation of plastic waste and associated carbon emissions
Plaxx is a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock produced from the waste plastic processed through the RT7000. It is a valuable chemical feedstock prior to refinement that could be utilized to develop new quality plastic
Plaxx is not used as fuel but a valuable building block in the circular economy and the plastics value chain, allocating post-consumer recycled content for new plastic products

RT7000 is the company’s proprietary technology turning plastic waste into chemical feedstock for plastic production. The machine utilizes a thermal cracking process breaking long chains of polymers into shorter chains with the use of heat in the absence of oxygen.

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