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First bread packaging made from recycled plastic

It is supposedly the world's first bread packaging made from recycled plastic. Sabic, St Johns Packaging and Kingsmill have now launched it in the UK.

It is supposedly the world's first bread packaging made from recycled plastic. Sabic, St Johns Packaging and Kingsmill have now launched it in the UK.

The packaging is based on Sabic-certified circular polyethylene (PE). Johns Packaging turned it into packaging that is now being used by Allied Bakeries, a major British supplier of bakery products, for toast.

Following the launch of the joint project in November 2020, the test phase was completed at St. Johns Packaging's production site in China in May 2021 and Kingsmill launched the PE film bags with certified circular polymer content in UK shops in September 2021.

As a result of a joint TRUCIRCLE project between SABIC, Allied Bakeries and St Johns Packaging, sliced bread sold under the Kingsmill brand will be the first bakery product in the world to use bags made from ISCC PLUS-certified circular polyethylene resin. (Photo: Allied Bakeries)

Paper recycling rate is underestimated

The bags are manufactured by St Johns Packaging using a PE resin from SABIC. The bags contain 30 per cent recycled content from post-consumer waste. Through advanced recycling, the used and mixed plastic is converted into pyrolysis oil, which is then used to produce new polymers with the same purity and quality as conventional virgin plastics.

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