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Major Food Company Adopts Oxo Bio
Albany Bakeries of South Africa, a subsidiary of the leading food company Tiger Brands, has launched oxo-biodegradable plastic packaging for all its bread products. Tiger Brands is one of the largest food producers in the world to commit to reducing the potential for plastic pollution by their packaging. Providing a substantial share of the national bread market and owns 12 major bakeries that produce Albany Superior; Olde Cape; D'light and Everyday bread ranges. Albany bread is the group's biggest user of packaging.
This packaging is being manufactured for Albany Bakeries in South Africa by three of the largest plastic producers, using high-speed machines, and Albany Bakeries' new oxo-biodegradable bread bags will mean that around 3,000 tonnes of packaging will no longer be contributing to the accumulation of plastic waste in the environment.
Meghan Draddy Packaging Development Manager - Grains: Cereals; Milling & Baking of Tiger Brands (South Africa), said:
"We are pleased to announce our ground-breaking initiative to protect the environment from the accumulation of plastic waste. Following three years of discussions, trials, testing and performance analysis, Tiger Brands has become South Africa's first national food company to tackle the litter and plastic-waste pollution unavoidably resulting from bakery operations.
Although plastic is the best packaging option, its reputation is tarnished by the fact that plastic manufactured in 2008 will outlive those who make it; but oxo-biodegradable additives and products change all that. By this decision Tiger Brands has set a path for others to follow. Up to 3,000 tonnes of potential litter and waste per year will now degrade and then biodegrade, within a short timescale, leaving no methane, no fragments and no harmful residues."