Twinings Tea Uses Innovia Biodegradable Packaging

Twinings Tea recently announced they will be using a compostable packaging for their Everyday tea line in the UK. The packaging is made from Innovia's Natureflex NM material.

Twinings is a leader in the tea business. The company is over 300 years old and its products are sold in more than 100 countries across the globe.

As we have reported before NatureFlex NM is a cellulose-based film, manufactured from renewable wood pulp.

According to Innovia, NatureFlex NM is the only metalized biodegradable film suitable for home composting because of its low metal content – less than 0.02% – which slows the film's degradation by a matter of days but does not interfere with its biodegradability in any other way. 

"As a company we are always looking at ways to lessen our impact on the environment. Using NatureFlex film as the inner wrap in this pack not only protects the teabags but also makes it easier for our customers to reduce their waste through home composting,” said Twinings' David Parkes.

NatureFlex films are cellulose-based, derived from wood pulp and are certified to meet both the European EN13432 and American ASTM D6400 standards for compostable packaging. 

Comments

[Mindzle.com]

Interesting idea, and another solid product innovation that might actually have a net positive effect. It has always been a bit of a oddity that tea bags were not compostable.