The
relationship between dairy packaging and composting is not that obvious because
much dairy packaging involves plastics, which currently are not compostable.
In honor of
World Environment Day, and to clarify some of the issues around the composting
of dairy packaging, and also composting terminology, I wrote an article, "On World Environment Day, think about this: Composting for dairy packaging may becoming sooner than you think" as a guest blog piece for Dairy Foods.
Compostable packaging
will figure strongly both with exhibitors as well as with speakers at the IFTAnnual Meeting and the Global Food & Beverage Packaging Summit
According to
Daphna Nissenbaum the CEO of TIPA, who is a speaker at the Global Food & Beverage Packaging Summit, "As more municipalities develop a food waste
collection infrastructure for composting, or as cities like New York encourage
consumers to take food waste for composting to drop off sites as a part of the
NYC Recycles program, the possibility of including compostable flexible
packaging with food waste will have a major impact in diverting this type of
packaging from landfill."
For brand
owners and companies interested in composting the US Composting Council (follow
on Twitter @USCompostingCou), offers useful fact sheets and free reports as
does the Michigan State Extension (@MSUExtension) and GreenBlue
(@GreenBlueorg), an environmental nonprofit dedicated to the sustainable use of
materials in society.
The City of New
York (@NYCgov), through the NYC Department of Sanitation (@NYCRecycles),
oversees NYC’s waste prevention, recycling and composting programs, and offers
drop-off sites throughout the five city boroughs as well as a Master ComposterCourse.
