DeeDee Pouch Professionals: The road to sustainability in the pouch market has many steps
09 Apr 2019
In the pouch market, the road to sustainability has many steps, notes Inge Louwers, Director of Dee Dee Pouch Professionals, at Empack 2019. Lauwers has divided the approach to sustainability into three phases for her customers. Going to pouches made 100 percent from plastics would be step one, while fully-recyclable mono-material pouches where only PP or PE are the next step. The last would be bio-based pouches, although shelf-life limitations still exist in this space. Companies need to think about sustainability – but doing so in small steps can be the most approachable way.
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