Dairypack has won double honours for its ‘Green Milk Bottle’, developed in partnership with Woolworths, earning gold for sustainability at the Gold Pack Awards and the international WorldStar Packaging Awards 2018.
The HDPE handled dairy bottle contains 30% plant-based plastic derived from sugar cane which is a renewable resource, and is a first for South Africa’s dairy industry.
The project was made possible through innovations in polymer production by Braskem, one of the world’s largest biopolymer producers, based in Brazil. Following the same plastic production process, the plant-based polyethylene is chemically and structurally identical to conventional polyethylene. Thus, it provides the same quality and protection when used in food packaging, and can be seamlessly mixed with a regular fossil-fuel alternative.
It is not biodegradable but remains 100% recyclable!