DailyDirt: Nicer Packaging For The Stuff We Eat
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Food packaging technology has come a long way from tin cans and glass containers. Packaging material is thinner and lighter and keeps food fresher for longer. And now that some plastics can be more easily recycled or composted, there are nifty new containers that could be slightly more environmentally friendly. Maybe food packaging hasn't been perfected just yet, but here are some interesting examples of progress in food distribution.- It took three years to develop a successor to the ubiquitous ketchup packet. Maybe they should have also designed ketchup dispensers for mini-vans that just attach to the back of the headrests. [url]
- Someday kids won't know what a cereal box is -- because cereal will come in bags? And while cereal makers are trying to improve their packaging, how about making those bags compostable, too? [url]
- Compostable packaging is supposed to degrade. This seems like a job for Mythbusters, but it would take some patience to verify that a SunChips bag actually decomposes over 13 weeks. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
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Filed Under: cereal, compostable, food, ketchup, packaging
Companies: heinz, sunchips
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http://www.tuvie.com/smellfree-compost-bin-the-ultra-efficient-odorless-compost-bin-concept /
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what's wrong with glass?
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Re: what's wrong with glass?
People who don't want to clean up broken glass and spilled food every time they lose their grip on a container.
It's all well and good to say that they should be more careful, but be honest; How many times have you accidentally dropped a food container?
Plus, plastic is squeezable, glass isn't. Remember the days of banging on the bottom of the ketchup bottle trying to get it to come out. Heinz even made commercials satirizing this problem with their "It's slow good!" ads.
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Re: Re: what's wrong with glass?
Bon Apetit!!!
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Why not go all the way and make them edible?
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Less Packaging... Less Food
One brand of cookies -- that I no longer buy -- changed the plastic tray from two rows running lengthwise to three rows running across. And went from 16 ozs to 13.5 ozs in the process. (Keebler Pecan Sandies)
Some Triscuit crackers now come in a "snack box" (and only in a snack box) that's kind of shaped like an old-style popcorn box. And it too went from 16 ozs to 13.5 ozs in the process.
But did the prices decrease 15% as well? Nope.
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