{"id":52371,"date":"2018-05-11T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plasticsnews.com%2Farticle%2F20180430%2FNEWS%2F304309997%2Ftetra-pak-to-develop-paper-straws-for-juice-boxes"},"modified":"2018-05-03T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T06:21:50","slug":"tetra-pak-to-develop-paper-straws-for-its-portion-size-carton-packages%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/tetra-pak-to-develop-paper-straws-for-its-portion-size-carton-packages%e2%80%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetra Pak to develop paper straws for its portion-size carton packages\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tetra Pak aims to launch a paper straw that is suitable for its portion-sized carton packages before the end of the year, as part of a broader programme to help address the issue of plastic straw waste.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Straws play an integral functional role on portion packages, but if not disposed of properly, they then become p\u200bart of the plastics waste problem. The company has been working to encourage consumers to push straws \u201cback in the pack\u201d once empty, so they can be collected along with the rest of the package. Now, work is under way to develop a paper straw that is suitable for use on its portion-size carton packages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds simple enough,\u201d concedes Charles Brand, Executive Vice President, Product Management &amp; Commercial Operations, \u201cbut in reality, there are a number of significant challenges to producing a paper straw with the required properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, our development team is confident they can find a solution, and that we\u2019ll have a paper straw alternative ready to launch by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On average, Tetra Pak packages are about 75% paperboard; paper straws would be another important step towards the company\u2019s long-term ambition of offering a completely renewable portfolio.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tetra Pak aims to launch a paper straw that is suitable for its portion-sized carton packages before the end of the year, as part of a broader programme to help address the issue of plastic straw waste. Straws play an integral functional role on portion packages, but if not disposed of properly, they then become [&#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":[14461,14462,10563],"supplier":[7625],"class_list":["post-52371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-package","tag-plasticwaste","tag-renewable","supplier-tetra-pak-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52371","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=52371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52371"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=52371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}