When we embarked on our recycling journey some time ago we believed it would be a relatively easy journey! The obvious packaging is paper, however, paper is porous and so needs a plastic liner, although, in theory recyclable, in practice a nightmare. What about compostable? As long as you’re happy to wait 20 years for […]
When we embarked on our recycling journey some time ago we believed it would be a relatively easy journey! The obvious packaging is paper, however, paper is porous and so needs a plastic liner, although, in theory recyclable, in practice a nightmare. What about compostable? As long as you’re happy to wait 20 years for it to happen, and even then it doesn’t break down correctly. Recyclable plastic? In all honesty a really good option, just marketing wise a difficult sell, as plastic is the devil, unfairly in lots of examples. 18 months of trial and error got us to what we have below, a recyclable metal lid and a recyclable glass jar, however, that’s only the start! Size, labels, packaging, there’s more to it than just a jar.
Richard Done (partner)
It has long been our desire to have completely recyclable packaging, it’s 2020, easy right? Er! No. Packaging claims about being recyclable has been a bug bear of mine for years, most claims are just untrue or so difficult to implement that they may as well be non recyclable. Ice cream packaging is no different, […]
For the last couple of years we have attempted to put the environment at the centre of all our business decisions, which has been tricky to follow through on as a positive decision can sometimes lead to a negative one somewhere else. Therefore, we concluded that compromises need to be made or no decisions can […]
As mentioned previously, ice cream is a combination of a number of different ingredients emulsified together, heated up and cooled down. If you simply froze the mix down it would just be a frozen block and completely inedible. So the magic needs to happen and that is ‘whipping’ to get some air into the product. […]