Technologies combined to create compostable film that extends shelf life
Marie Donlon | February 12, 2021A manufacturer of compostable food packaging and a designer of shelf-life extending solutions have combined their respective technologies to create a barrier film that reduces plastic waste and carbon emissions while addressing the issue of global food waste.
TIPA combined its compostable packaging film for fruits and vegetables with Perfotec’s high precision laser technology (LMPT) to create packaging that extends the shelf life of foods and composts in soil at the end of its life.
TIPA’s compostable film treated with Perfotec’s laser technology, which makes consistent holes or microperforations in the film, adapt the permeability of the packaging, thereby doubling the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. This is due, according to the developers, to the combination of the compostable films’ gas and moisture transmission rates. The film’s oxygen and carbon dioxide transmission rates and high moisture transmission rate combined with PerfoTec’s LMPT technology optimize the conditions of the food packaged in the film.
In addition to extending the life of food and subsequently preventing food waste, the film composts in soil without leaving behind microplastics or toxic residues — an issue that plagues traditional packaging.
Misunderstandings, but they won't go away. Most plastics are not toxic at all, micro or otherwise. If you hear that fish eat plastics, we eat fish and are thus "poisoned," please ask how the fish digest the plastic, convert to fish flesh and what else that we can metabolize that can poison us.
The need to demonize plastics comes because they are synthetic (unnatural) and changeable (humanipulation) with a bit of anticorporation and antifossilfuel thrown in -- real concerns but little to do with toxicity. Chemistry threatens our need to believe in impossibles, learned in infancy and never really lost.