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New Zealand’s foremost packaging industry group is tackling one of the sector’s most pressing issues as it works to develop a use-case for compostable packaging. The Packaging Forum’s Compostable Packaging Technical Advisory Group launched a .
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 7:36 am
A recent survey of compostable packaging
stakeholders by The Packaging Forum shows that between them
they have completed over 100 compostable packaging projects
in the last five years, with another 81 in progress and 85
more planned.
Yet there has been little
progress made on developing a viable end-of-life solution
for compostable packaging at the scale New Zealand requires.
This according to Kim Renshaw of Beyond the Bin, who is
project manager for The Packaging Forum’s Compostable
Technical Advisory Group (CTAG).
What’s needed for
progress to happen, she says, is clear in the top six
requirements identified by