{"id":108608,"date":"2022-05-04T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=108608"},"modified":"2022-04-28T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:26:22","slug":"tishwish-starch-based-biopolymer-for-sustainable-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/tishwish-starch-based-biopolymer-for-sustainable-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Tishwish: Starch-based Biopolymer for Sustainable Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Boston University graduates and spouses, Arsh Kakar and Jannat Kakar, founded Tishwish, a packaging company that places great value in the sustainability and customizability of its products, as a response to the pandemic\u2019s impact on the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company\u2019s main focus is on the unwrapping experience of a product, providing sustainable cushioning such as compostable bubble and normal mailers, packaging tissues, stickers and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arsh worked five years in the packaging, production and manufacturing industry, establishing connections with material scientists and professionals who helped develop Tishwish products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe came up with a starch-based biopolymer that comes from corn,\u201d he said. \u201cThey [corn] are of no value to the farmers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the website, the average plastic poly mailer takes roughly 500 years to decompose while Tishwish\u2019s plant-based mailer only takes three to six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tishwish also implemented the \u201cTimber Re-Leaf Project\u201d, an initiative to ensure that products only use 100% recycled paper, Arsh said. Additionally, the company works with a third party organization to plant a tree for every order received in an area that needs reforestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no reckless deforestation that happens in the procurement of these trees, so no rare timbers are used,\u201d Arsh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020 and 2021, Tishwish planted over 7,000 trees ranging from Africa to New Zealand. The company plans to increase this number drastically in 2022 with a target of 35,000 trees planted. Tishwish also plans to increase the number of trees planted per order for its enterprise scale customers \u2014 like Netflix \u2014 to 100 to 500 trees per order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tishwish is able to leverage initiatives such as the Timber Re-Leaf Project to conduct \u201ccause marketing\u201d that helps make customers say \u201clet\u2019s go with this company,\u201d Jannat said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tishwish displays its certifications on all mailers, complying with its philosophy of transparency with its customers. \u201cThey\u2019re all printed with our numbers and everything,\u201d Jannat said. They have faced supply chain challenges due to the global shortage of freight vessels, making it difficult to import materials from countries like Vietnam, India and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur base material is not made in the United States because the same grade of material is not available yet for this particular usage,\u201d Arsh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company is currently exploring potential partners in Canada and Mexico to help keep up with demand, and expects 40% of their products to be made in the US starting February 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston University graduates and spouses, Arsh Kakar and Jannat Kakar, founded Tishwish, a packaging company that places great value in the sustainability and customizability of its products, as a response to the pandemic\u2019s impact on the environment. The company\u2019s main focus is on the unwrapping experience of a product, providing sustainable cushioning such as compostable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"The company\u2019s main focus is on the unwrapping experience of a product, providing sustainable cushioning such as compostable bubble and normal mailers, packaging tissues, stickers and more","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,5847,7105,10453],"supplier":[20289],"class_list":["post-108608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioplastics","tag-packaging","tag-recycling","supplier-tishwish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108608"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=108608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}