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Arla Foods is partnering with Swedish start-up Blue Ocean Closures to create a fibre-based cap for its cardboard milk cartons.
The company said this could be a first in the dairy industry and would reduce Arla’s plastic consumption by more than 500 tonnes annually if implemented.
Accounting for around 23% of the plastic used in Arla’s cartons, the farmer-owned dairy cooperative is focusing on eliminating the use of fossil-based virgin plastic in its packaging by 2030, starting with the caps on its cardboard cartons.
Chief commercial officer at Arla Foods, Peter Giørtz-Carlsen, said: “Improving our packaging, including reducing our use of plastic, is imperative to us and we know that consumers are also very invested in this area. This project to explore what could very well be the first fibre-based cap on milk cartons is very exciting and shows that we at Arla are constantly looking to improve and lead the transformation of sustainable packaging.”
