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eliminates the need for 750 million
absorbent pads used across
ANZ’s fresh protein sector. And
when it comes to shipping goods,
solutions like Bubble Wrap IB can
be inflated on-demand, saving
over 4m2 in storage space versus
traditional inflated bubble wrap
rolls.
“Whether we down gauge or
redesign, when it comes to a
sustainable food supply chain,
food security is boss. Without
packaging and its ability to
protect, extend shelf life and
provide hermetic seals, our
food supply chain can quickly
come undone and that means
compromised food safety and food
security and lots of food waste.
As we’ve recently witnessed, we
need supply chain models that
are adaptable, that can ramp up
and support processors who are
dealing with unforeseen throughput
to support global pandemics
and its consequential impact
like panic buying. Sustainability
also means working cohesively
with stakeholders to ensure risk
mitigation and supply continuity,”
says Adams.
It’s about leaving our
world better than we
found it.
“When it comes to tackling 2025
commitments, there’s certainly
an air of enthusiasm across the
business and perhaps some nail
biting too as we await experimental
results,” explains Andrew Fox,
product technologist, for Sealed Air
New Zealand.
Despite lean manufacturing
protocols, scrap is often inevitable.
The sheer production volume of
Sealed Air’s barrier cheese bags
means process scrap mounts
quickly. “2025 has catapulted the
rate at which we drive innovation
around plastics circularity,” says
Fox. “Formerly, sent to landfill, the
plastic scrap from barrier cheese
bags is now recycled into resin
beads and fed through Sealed
Air Hamilton’s extrusion lines to
produce materials for its Sealed Air
brand of protective mailers.”
That’s 140 tonne of industrial
plastic diverted from the waste
stream, recycled and re-used
to produce Sealed Air brand
protective mailers. This is the
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