Choosing the right materials is crucial because we don’t want to add to the issue of food waste, and of course we also want our products to retain their quality and for them to last until they reach your home.

We use packaging to protect our products through their shelf life.Choosing the right materials is crucial because we don&#x2019;t want to add to the issue of food waste, and of course we also want our products to retain their quality and for them to last until they reach your home. Getting this wrong and creating food waste is a double negative for the environment because it means that we have wasted the ingredients, production, packaging and delivery as well as the finished product.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(47, 71, 62); font-family: SharpGroteskBook19; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 26px; text-transform: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;">If food waste was a country it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the US and China, it&#x2019;s one of the biggest (and mostly silent) issues in global warming at the moment. Have a listen to our podcast episode on the topic to learn more.

The Role of Packaging

We define recyclable packaging as the types of materials that can be placed in household recycling.

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(47, 71, 62); font-family: SharpGroteskBook19; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 26px; text-transform: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;">We define recyclable packaging as the types of materials that can be placed in household recycling. Some materials can be recycled at local refuse centres or through specialist centres but this isn&#x2019;t widespread and from our research it doesn&#x2019;t improve the adoption rate for recycling. It&#x2019;s likely that some of this material is sent to landfill, is sent abroad or is burnt.We have experimented with compostable material and used it for our energy balls when they first launched. It sounds like a dream solution but unfortunately, as we came to learn, the vast majority of compostable packaging can&#x2019;t decompose in home compost bins. It requires high levels of heat and humidity to break down (and that isn&#x2019;t possible in the UK), so it needs to go to an industrial composting plant, which we don&#x2019;t currently have access to as consumers. There&#x2019;s also research to show that any plastic that&#x2019;s contained in the packaging could enter the ecosystem through microplastics when it eventually breaks down. If compostable packaging enters the recycling stream, it can also contaminate &#x2018;good&#x2019; recyclable materials and can result in those being sent to landfill or being burnt. As a result of this, we moved away from that material. It sounded great, but the realities didn&#x2019;t match up to the dream.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(47, 71, 62); font-family: SharpGroteskBook19; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 26px; text-transform: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;">There&#x2019;s quite a lot of confusion surrounding plastic. Some plastic is better for the environment than comparable materials e.g. glass, because it&#x2019;s light (and doesn&#x2019;t take much carbon to transport it) and can be easily recycled e.g. juice bottles or trays that things like soft fruit come in. There are some plastics which cannot be recycled (currently) and the facilities don&#x2019;t exist commercially to recycle them e.g. plastic straws or plastic film. The role of these plastics can be important in the food industry but they have to be used sparingly, and only when they will make a difference to the carbon impact of that product. If there&#x2019;s no alternative, industry, government and society need to apply pressure to make better options available. Pass on plastic is a great example of this.

What's recyclable packaging?

Our products are packaged in a range of materials best suited to the product they’re protecting. In doing so, we aim to prevent food waste and to minimise the carbon impact of our products on the environment. Wherever possible the card and plastic we

Our products are packaged in a range of materials best suited to the product they&#x2019;re protecting. In doing so, we aim to prevent food waste and to minimise the carbon impact of our products on the environment. Wherever possible the card and plastic we use will be from post-consumer recycled materials and are 100% recyclable. Please check the recycling details on individual products for full info. As you&#x2019;ll appreciate, we&#x2019;re not an engineering company and can&#x2019;t create the solutions ourselves, but will be a first adopter whenever more sustainable materials become commercially available. We are delighted to hear from packaging companies, scientists, and industry experts who can help us be the best possible food brand in the UK at lowering our carbon footprint and investing in greener materials. If you would like to get in touch, please email me at <a></a><a class="fr-green fr-strong" data-fr-linked="true" href="mailto:ella@deliciouslyella.com">ella@deliciouslyella.com</a>.&#xA0; We aim to maximise the amount of recyclable packaging in our products and we are committed to trialling materials as they become commercially available.

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