Sustainability
The environment is everyone’s responsibility.
At Plastic Package, we realize the environment is everyone’s responsibility and we do our part to manufacture and create packaging that has minimal impact on the environment.
- Our equipment and tooling are engineered to generate the least amount of scrap possible
- We are a zero waste thermoformer, recycling all of our scrap material
- We work with our customers to reduce the shipping space (cube), thus using less fossil fuels and corrugated to reduce the carbon footprint
- Plastic Packages' design team works with our customers to minimize the amount of material without compromising package performance
- Many of our materials include recycled content; both post consumer and post industrial
- We are helping our customers to recycle their packaging by encouraging the use of PET: the plastic used in water and soft drink bottles
- We are facilitating programs to "close the loop" by creating programs that recycle the packaging into future trays, containers, and clamshells thus keeping plastic out of landfills
- Alternatives to petroleum based plastics are available. Some common bio resins made from renewable resources, such as corn, include PLA (Poly Lactic Acid), PHA (Poly Hydroxyalkanoates), and PHB (Poly Hydro Oxybutyrate). These products are compostable as defined by the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI)
