palm fibre packaging is an eco friendly nethod of packaging.

1. PALM FIBRE PACKAGING
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3. Issues with Packaging
• Pollution
– With decreasing capacity for waste disposal, trash
ends up contaminating ecosystems, such as
waterways.
 Climate Change
 Associated with the green house gas intensity of
product manufacturing
 Natural Resource Depletion
 Scarcity of raw materials, many of which are used
in the production of plastics, such as oil, natural
gas, coal, and agriculture

4. Issues with Packaging
 Waste
Creation
 Issues of capacity for garbage disposal
 Dangers to Human Health
 Concerns over the toxicity of different
source materials

5. Strategies of sustainable packaging
• Manufacture with renewable
and compostable materials.
• Design for re use, recycle,.
• Eliminate toxic.
• Reduce volume of materials.

6. Effect of non degradable packages
• Contaminated Ground Water
• Long-term exposure to air, light and water can cause synthetic
materials like plastic to emit toxic pollutants.
• Plastics, which are petroleum-based, contain toxins that can leach
into water supplies.
• Biphenyl A--a chemical used in water bottles, food containers and
hard plastics--leach into foods and water over time and are
carcinogenic, cause insulin resistance and interfere with conception.
• Out gassing
• Plastic pollutes the air in much the same way it taints water
supplies. Constant exposure to heat melts plastic, emitting gases
into the atmosphere in a process known as out gassing.
• plastic causes toxic fumes to be released into the atmosphere and
exposed to constant sunlight.

7. Palm fibers
• Recyclable materials:
• Waste paper stream and certified home compostable—
specifically Palm Fiber pulp for the base cup
material, lined with Mater-Bi (r), a moisture
barrier/liner made from vegetable starches.
• Reduce the waste, pollution, and illogical use of fossil
fuels associated with making disposable packaging.
• We use palm fiber an annually renewable resource to
create disposable food packaging which composts in 90
days, turning into a healthy contribution for the soil.

8. Manufacture of palm fibers
• A by-product of the production of palm oil, palm fiber is considered an
agricultural waste product, left over from the palm oil harvest, and is
usually burned. On the palm oil tree, a large husk, called a Full Fruit Bunch
(FFB), grows and contains up to 2,000 fruit. When the fruit is ripe, the FFB
is harvested for milling-one palm tree produces fruit two to three times
per year.
• In the milling process, the FFBs are sterilized and stripped of the fruit; the
fruit is then pressed in order to extract the crude palm oil (CPO).
• After separating the fruit from the FFBs, what remains is called an Empty
Fruit Bunch (EFB)-a fibrous mass that is considered waste by the palm
millers.
• In typical mill operations, the EFB is mulched for use as fertilizer or for soil
remediation; unfortunately, there still remains an abundance of excess
fiber that is burned, causing an environmental hazard.

9. Manufacture of palm fibers
• Instead of burning, we steam, chop and
mulch the fiber into a useable form for
pulping. The company’s manufacturing
operation uses no chemicals, dyes, or
bleaches to produce the raw, natural pulp
that is then molded into many different
shapes and sizes or pressed into sheets for
paper.
• The material is certified home compostable,
recyclable, and renewable, and complies
with all North American and European food
grade standards.

10. Environmental Impacts
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Palm trees give fruit throughout the year, so the material is more
than annually renewable.
ASTM standard for renewability.
As we are using a starch based liner, we are reducing the use of
petroleum based plastics for the moisture barrier.
The Home Compostable Cup is more easily accepted in existing
commercial compost facilities and can be composted more quickly
and under less intensive (i.e. costly, energy intensive) operations.
The entire cup and lid is also recyclable, so if consumers do not
bring back the cup or compost it in their own backyards, they an
include the cup and lid in the waste paper recycling stream.
By using an anaerobic system to process the waste, greenhouse
gases are reduced .

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