For seafood processors, and anyone within the fishing industry that needs to transport or distribute fish and seafood, polystyrene boxes has always been the go to choice. Here in the UK alone, it is estimated that there are in excess of 22 million polystyrene boxes for fish and seafood used annually across the UK seafood sector.
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Coolseal is the leading alternative to traditional polystyrene fish packaging boxes for the fishing and seafood industries. With polystyrene historically being the go-to material used to transport fish, we have seen a shift over the last few years to more sustainable and more economical packaging alternatives.
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Grimsby is a town that’s long been synonymous with the fishing industry. Today, it remains one of the biggest seafood processing destinations in the UK, and is a place where Coolseal is making a huge impact in moving the fishing industry away from the use of polystyrene boxes, to a more sustainable and 100% recyclable fish box alternative.
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Anyone involved in tree planting knows the importance of tree shelters as a simple and effective tool to provide protection for newly planted trees. The risk of damage to and survival of newly planted trees in the first few years is incredibly high. In fact, the risk of loss in the first five years is estimated to be in excess of 50%. Tree protection gained from the use of tree shelters, therefore is crucial.
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Packaging is an essential part of any product’s safe transit, however, in the pharmaceutical industry, the packaging is becoming a vital component in ensuring the products are contamination free as well as safe and secure during the supply chain.
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The new plastic tax is set to take effect in April 2022, but what does that mean for the packaging industry?
At Budget 2017, the government called on a system which can help tackle the usage of single-use plastics, by adding an additional charge to the material.
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The impact of non-recyclables on our planet is the hot topic on everyone’s mind at the moment. As responsible packaging suppliers, Tri-Pack continues to work tirelessly to produce and recycle our own sustainable packaging.
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The pharmaceutical packaging industry has been growing at an unprecedented rate and is expected to continue its growth over the coming years. The key driving factors behind the industry growth are; an ageing population, increase in chronic illnesses and stricter environmental and medical regulations.
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Take a raw material >> manufacture it into a product >> use that product >> then transform the product back into the same volume of original raw material.
As a simplistic representation, that is the circular economy.
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In a bid to help protect our planet, more and more families and businesses are trying to do their bit by recycling more of their household waste. Local authorities are adding to the pressures by enforcing fines when recyclable waste is disposed of in general waste bins. Waste which is disposed of in these general waste bins is usually sent to landfills, where any food waste will eventually decompose but any plastics, polystyrene or aluminium, for example, will sit for hundreds of years. Many councils provide residents and businesses with separate bins, boxes or bags for different recyclable waste, but the process still isn’t easy and it varies so much around the country.
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