Designation allows the company to certify the percentages of advanced recycled polypropylene included in the food-sector solutions produced at the plant.
Until now, there have been minimal packaging options that meet regulatory compliance and consumers’ environmental demands at the right price point for industry-wide adoption.
Smithfield Foods Inc. committed to achieve consumer packaging that is 90% recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable and to halve use of virgin petroleum-based plastic.