{"id":29488,"date":"2015-10-22T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=29488"},"modified":"2015-10-16T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T13:23:03","slug":"ryegrass-whisks-up-waitrose-egg-boxes-in-uk-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/ryegrass-whisks-up-waitrose-egg-boxes-in-uk-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryegrass whisks up Waitrose egg boxes in UK first"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29491\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29491\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/waitrose_13178181863901.jpg\" alt=\"Souce: Waitrose\" width=\"244\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2015\/10\/waitrose_13178181863901.jpg 5063w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2015\/10\/waitrose_13178181863901-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2015\/10\/waitrose_13178181863901-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2015\/10\/waitrose_13178181863901-600x391.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Souce: Waitrose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The humble egg box is set to receive a green and pleasant makeover this week, with the launch of a revolutionary new packaging made from ryegrass.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a UK first, the eggs in the Waitrose Duchy Organic range will now be safely nestled in boxes made from equal amounts of rye grass and recycled paper.<\/p>\n<p>Waitrose predict that the switch will save 77 tonnes of wood\/recycled paper per year. While the technology is still very new, it is planned to extend the packaging to other egg boxes in the Waitrose range which could save 405 tonnes of wood\/recycled paper per year.<\/p>\n<p>The new green-coloured packaging will protect its contents like a traditional egg box, but uses 60% less water during production and release 10% less CO<sub>2<\/sub> compared to a standard pulp egg box. It is also 100% recyclable.<\/p>\n<p>Waitrose egg buyer, Frances Westerman, said: \u201cWe often take the humble egg box for granted as it reliably keeps your eggs intact until you\u2019re ready to crack them open. While we\u2019ve found no better way for safely getting eggs to your kitchen table, we\u2019re always looking at way we can use less packaging and more sustainable materials to ensure that we minimise our impact on the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humble egg box is set to receive a green and pleasant makeover this week, with the launch of a revolutionary new packaging made from ryegrass. In a UK first, the eggs in the Waitrose Duchy Organic range will now be safely nestled in boxes made from equal amounts of rye grass and recycled paper. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[7105],"supplier":[4651],"class_list":["post-29488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-packaging","supplier-waitrose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29488"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=29488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}