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Food Packaging
News Release from: TriStar
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 April 2007
Tri-Star environmental incentive
Tri-Star, one of the leading food packaging solution providers, will be waving the environmental green flag this Spring.
Tri-Star, one of the leading food packaging solution providers, will be waving the environmental green flag this Spring It will embark on a huge, nationwide campaign to get all its customers supporting and trying out the benefits of using environmentally friendly disposable packaging solutions
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Lee Richards, General Sales Manager of Tri-Star Packaging said: "As helping to save the environment is such a social hot topic, we at Tri-Star think it is imperative that we are pro-active in making our customers realise how easy it can be to help the environment.
By simply choosing biodegradable, or other environmentally friendly packaging over other packaging materials.
From the end of April until the 30 June, sandwich and salad producers, retail coffee shops and sandwich bars plus contract caterers as well as universities, hospitals and schools, will be targeted by the Tri-Star Spring Green sales team.
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Daily Bread is first to go green
Tri-Star, is to work with Anson to supply Daily Bread, the premium quality sandwich maker with new and revolutionary biodegradable sandwich wedges.
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Tri-Star are supplying as Anchor Packaging (USA) UK's distribution partner, Crystal Classics - an exclusive range of quality, disposable salad bowls and deep lidded plates
Once shown samples and explained the benefits of biodegradable PLA and Tectaboard food packaging, customers will have the opportunity to try out the beneficial Spring Green option.
This includes purchasing PLA hinged sandwich wedges for the same price as less environmentally friendly PVC wedges.
The PLA hinged sandwich wedges are made of a high clarity material, which is strong, lightweight and will biodegrade in a matter of weeks under the right conditions.
Besides being entirely natural, the biodegradable sandwich wedges are functional and totally safe for all types of food.
The Spring Green range includes:- Tectaboard ? Spring Green cardboard option · Sandwich wedges incorporating new self seal sandwich wedge which gives two days shelf life with no requirement for machinery · Salad, tortilla and baguette containers with PLA window · Tectabagel pack with PLA window PLA ? Green PVC option · Hinged sandwich wedges · A range of ten salad containers in various different design formats · Tortilla packs There will also be a range of environmentally friendly cups and tumblers suitable for hot and cold beverages.
Kevin Curran, Managing Director of Tri-Star Packaging concludes: "Sustainability is one of the most important environmental issues.
With oil derived products such as PVC and APET we drain the world of its oil resources, never to be replenished." "In contrast, PLA is made from maize, a farm crop of which the US alone produces some 282.3 million tonnes a year, according to the International Grains Council.
"With PLA we have a natural source that is renewable annually," he said.
"That could create employment, assist farmers in utilising land and enable supply to be increased without destroying our planet.".
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