Company:
Amcor (Australia and New Zealand)
Barrier shrink bags have been the key packaging format for primal protein packaging for decades. It is also one of the largest non-recyclable flexible packaging formats by volume. As part of Amcor’s plan to ensure their packaging was 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025, Amcor ANZ invested in local Research and Development and talent to produce Ecotite R, a new high barrier shrink bag with comparable performance to existing bags, but free of PVDC and other contaminants that prevent recycling. This also ensured their domestic and export Customers would be compliant with proposed recycling legislation in Australia, New Zealand, the EU, UK, South Korea and other jurisdictions. Ecotite R is recyclable in return to store programs; and will meet future Australian and international requirements for advanced soft plastics recycling. The bags are 6% lighter at the same thickness than the current PVDC based bags, providing a carbon footprint improvement.