{"id":147558,"date":"2024-07-10T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=147558"},"modified":"2024-07-04T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T09:51:21","slug":"packaging-that-composts-at-ambient-temperatures-aims-to-make-litter-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/packaging-that-composts-at-ambient-temperatures-aims-to-make-litter-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"Packaging that composts at ambient temperatures aims to make litter disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>\u00a0While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnavigator.com\/Article\/2024\/04\/10\/Nestle-navigating-global-recycling-regulations\">recycling regimes<\/a> have seen some success in encouraging consumers to depose of food and beverage packaging in a sustainable way, litter is still a significant problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what if litter composted in a matter of weeks, rather than sticking around for hundreds of years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish start-up Pack2Earth has developed biobased packaging that composts naturally at an ambient temperature, leaving little trace.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2024\/07\/Biobased-packaging-composts-at-ambient-temperatures.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147573\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5524625267665952;width:665px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2024\/07\/Biobased-packaging-composts-at-ambient-temperatures.jpg 725w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2024\/07\/Biobased-packaging-composts-at-ambient-temperatures-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2024\/07\/Biobased-packaging-composts-at-ambient-temperatures-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2024\/07\/Biobased-packaging-composts-at-ambient-temperatures-400x258.jpg 400w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2024\/07\/Biobased-packaging-composts-at-ambient-temperatures-380x245.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The start-up does not encourage littering at all, but wants to create packaging which will vanish in a matter of weeks, when people act irresponsively. \u00a9 Getty Images\/zianlob<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0While recycling regimes have seen some success in encouraging consumers to depose of food and beverage packaging in a sustainable way, litter is still a significant problem. But what if litter composted in a matter of weeks, rather than sticking around for hundreds of years? Spanish start-up Pack2Earth has developed biobased packaging that composts naturally [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":147574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Aiming for uniquely long shelf life and strong versatility, a new biobased packaging innovation has been developed to make litter vanish","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[10416,12239,7105,14462,5528],"supplier":[24478],"class_list":["post-147558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-circulareconomy","tag-compostability","tag-packaging","tag-plasticwaste","tag-sustainability","supplier-pack2earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147558","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=147558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147558"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=147558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}