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Aussie-first food pack from 100% ocean bound plastic
IN an Australian first, an Adelaide-based yoghurt manu- facturer MOO Premium Foods is using ocean bound plas- tic washed up on beaches and found in oceans in its tubs and lids, manufactured by Adelaide- based packaging converter TechnoPlas.
Ocean bound plastic is the term used to describe all plas- tic waste that has ended up in the ocean, as well as plas- tic waste found within 50km of a coastline that is not man- aged and at risk of ending up as marine debris.
According to MOO Premium Foods co-founder Mick Sanders, who founded MOO with his wife, Sally Sanders, 17 years ago, about 100 tonnes of plastic – the equivalent to 1.1 million plastic bottles – will be removed from beaches, oceans and waterways this year alone, thanks to MOO.
Creating MOO’s 100 per cent reclaimed ocean bound plastic tubs starts in Malaysia, where recycling company HHI partners
with locals to collect washed- up plastic from more than 200 beaches and rivers, in line with strict United Nations’ ocean plastic collection protocols.
The company says the work provides employment in under- privileged coastal communities, as well as helping to clear pol- luted waterways. The collected plastic is then sorted, crushed, washed and ‘melted’ down into resin, which then goes through a decontamination process that meets food-grade US FDA 21 CFR 177.1520 test compliance.
HHI is also certified by Zero Plastic Oceans to confirm that the recovered plastics meet the Ocean Bound Plastic standards.
MOO imports the food-grade plastic resin and local manufac- turer TechnoPlas moulds it into the yoghurt tubs and lids.
The tubs are 100 per cent recy- cled and 100 per cent recyclable – the tub, lid and foil just need rinsing before being placed in kerbside recycling bins for the process to start over again. ■
MOO tubs are manufactured by TechnoPlas from ocean bound plastic collected in Malaysia.
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