Flexible packaging leader Parkside has collaborated with the French firm Ness Emballages and fresh produce supplier Lilot Fruits to create an innovative home compostable lidding film designed specifically for avocados.
This cutting-edge bio-based film excels in safeguarding delicate produce, such as avocados, when sealed onto fiber-based trays. It boasts exceptional transparency, elevating its visual appeal and surpassing conventional recyclable coated or opaque paper lidding alternatives. Importantly, this film also allows for optimal respiration performance, enhancing the protection of perishable fruits and vegetables throughout the distribution process.
At its end-of-life, the film can either be composted in a home composting system, where it decomposes in approximately 26 weeks under standard conditions, or processed at an industrial composting facility, achieving breakdown in about 12 weeks.
Conor Molyneaux, Sales Account Manager at Parkside, expressed enthusiasm over this advancement, stating, “Sustainability is the defining challenge for European food producers as legislation like PPWR continues to evolve. It’s particularly gratifying to help our partners tackle this issue with innovations designed for the future.”
He added, “This solution offers robust and trustworthy sustainability credentials that businesses can clearly convey at the point-of-sale when it matters most. It successfully combines a premium look and feel that consumers desire while eliminating the use of traditional fossil fuel-derived plastics.”
Parkside has customized the film to ensure seamless operation and sealing on customers’ packaging lines, thereby reducing any obstacles to adopting fiber-based trays and compostable films.
The film is derived from an established, approved, and well-received structure, available exclusively through Parkside. For further details on this innovation or to browse Parkside’s wide range of sustainable flexible packaging options, please visit www.parksideflex.com.