The new product’s development was led by Alaa Alaizoki, as part of his engineering doctorate at Swansea University, in collaboration with food packaging company Klöckner Pentaplast. Doing away with the absorbent pad also removes additional cost and labor requirements during packaging manufacture.
Unlike most of the trays themselves, pads cannot be recycled. Juices remain trapped during storage and transport and cannot flow out again, maintaining shelf-life and product appearance and making all of the packaging recyclable. The slightly space age-looking, innovative packaging sees the tray itself retain meat juices through small-scale well-cavities. A new type of plastic packaging for raw poultry and meat that avoids the need for non-recyclable juice-absorbing pads inside the trays has been developed by a researcher in Swansea, U.K.ĭoing away with the absorbent pad means that the whole tray can be recycled, a real plus for any poultry company that further wants to boost its sustainability credentials.
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