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Robert Hanna of Sydney- based business, Blu Print, talks to PKN about the need for variety in the courier satchel market to
help create an environmentally responsible future.
Blu Print’s Enviro 80 bag contains 80% PCR content.
Great Wrap claims CPG crown
Victorian startup Great Wrap has received top honours in the 2021 FoodBytes! Pitch Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) category.
RECOGNISED for its commitment to end household plastic waste, Great Wrap manufactures home-compostable products, including cling wrap made from food waste, at the busi- ness’s solar powered factory in the Mornington Peninsula.
Great Wrap says that, unlike biode- gradeable products, its cling wrap is free of microplastics and is certified to break down into carbon and water in just 180 days, leaving no residual toxins.
The company claims that, as the wrap is home compostable, it does not require the high temperatures needed to break down industrial compostable packaging.
Great Wrap beat four other finalists, including Australia’s Fable Foods, to claim the coveted CPG crown at the 2021 FoodBytes! by Rabobank Pitch competition – a global pro- gram designed to discover the best and brightest emerging companies addressing the world’s food chal- lenges, and showcase food and agri startup companies.
Great Wrap, and fellow Australian startups Fable Foods, SBM- Transpirational and AgriDigital, were among 15 finalists selected across
three sectors – FoodTech, AgTech and CPG – to con- test FoodBytes! live virtual pitch competition on November 10.
Membership enrolment and startup scout- ing for 2022 is already underway. Corporates and other interested parties can go to www.foodbytes- world.com to find out more ■
PCR satchels for Aeco-friendly shipping
USTRALIA’S e-commerce sales reduce a business’s impact on the grew by 32 per cent over the environment and promote a circular last year, and in line with this, economy,” he explains.
so too did the demand for ship- Hanna says that, for every 100,000 ping and packaging options, satchels with a combined weight many of which are made from of 3080kg, 2464kgs of plastic has materials that can be harmful been diverted from landfill and to the environment if not dis- reused, rather than left to clog up
posed of responsibly.
Cardboard boxes, padded mailers,
compostable satchels and traditional plastic satchels are a few of the current options available for postage, but now Blu Print has introduced the Enviro 80 courier satchel, which is made from 80 per cent post-consumer waste.
According to Blu Print’s Robert Hanna, the premise behind this prod- uct is to divert plastic from landfills, reuse it and then recycle it once more using the REDcycle system. The bags are all printed with the REDcycle logo, and these can be recycled via 2000 collection locations in the REDcycle network nationwide.
“On average, Australians use 130 kilograms of plastic each year. That’s a lot of waste that can be turned into a new resource again. Blu Print saw this as an opportunity to use the under-utilised resource of post-con- sumer waste to create new satchels,
the environment.
“Since Blu Print released Enviro
80 to the market, it has prevented 40 million new plastic satchels from entering the environment,” he con- firms, pointing out that this type of packaging has a potential to provide a viable long-term solution – unlike renewable packaging or traditional satchels, which are made of mate- rials that increasingly deplete the environment.
“This is why variety in packag- ing is essential to ensure we spread the weight that e-commerce ship- ping has on the planet, and we don’t overuse one specific resource,” he concludes. ■
Blu Print is an independent print and packaging procurement services pro- vider. The company offers a range of services that cover all areas of com- mercial print media.