Robbie Manufacturing's Hot N Handy Rotisserie pouch packaging provides a much more sustainable solution to grocery store rotisserie packaging. Most grocery stores, even Whole Foods Market offer rotisserie chicken in plastic rigid two-piece dome packaging. The packaging is designed to be disposable generating a significant amount of waste for a one time use package.
The Hot N Handy packaging is a pouch style design and has many benefits like a handle for easy carrying, anti-fog window to showcase the chicken, resealable zipper for saving leftovers, microwave ability and the slim profile stores easily in the consumers refrigerator and behind the counter or in the storage room at retail and now sustainability.
Late last month the packaging was awarded the 2008 Gold Award in Environmental and Sustainability Achievement from the Flexible Packaging Association.
The award recognizes how Robbie’s Hot N Handy Rotisserie Pouch provides the most advanced sustainable solution for rotisserie chicken packaging in the market today. The manufacturing of the pouch (including raw materials) produces 85% less CO2 and uses 88% less crude oil than the rigid two-piece dome. Hot N Handy Pouches use 80% less packaging material than rigid containers and offers a 66% reduction in solid waste introduced into landfills.
Penny Sweeney with Robbie Manufacturing told Sustainable is Good the Hot N Handy packaging is currently in use in roughly 5,000 grocery and convenience stores across the country. She said the company is working on replacing the dome packaging "store by store," but would not identify specific stores using the packaging citing concerns over competitors.
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