To reduce plastic use, Finland turns to nature for new packaging solutions

According to statistics, in the past ten years, the EU generated an average of 34 kg of plastic packaging waste per person, of which less than half (11 kg) was recycl.

In addition to the market's need for sustainability, plastics have suffered in other wa.

Packaging suppliers in Finland have responded by developing new initiativ.

“Finland has set high environmental and carbon neutral goals to be the first fossil-free welfare society by 203Our future-oriented industries, including biomass packaging, have already done so by developing a high level of green research and know-how There is a respon.

A specific example is the interdisciplinary 4everPack project initiated by the Finnish research institute VTT and Vaasa Universi.

Some Finnish start-ups are also working to develop new packaging materia.

"Paptic was founded to address one of the greatest global environmental challenges, the accumulation of plastic waste in the environment," explained Tuomas Mustonen, CEO and co-founder of Papt.

Similarly, another brand, RePack, is offering reusable packaging to online retailers in Europe and North Ameri.

Huhtamaki has partnered with Unilever to convert the packaging of its Carte D'Or ice cream range into recyclable cartons and li.

Huhtamaki also recently launched the Push Tab blister cap, an aluminum-free simple PET blister cap for the global healthcare indust.

Thomasine Kamerling, Executive Vice President of Sustainability and Communications at Huhtamaki, noted that food packaging is used by billions of people every day because it plays a fundamental role in ensuring food hygiene and safety, improving accessibility and affordability, and helping prevent food was.