TETRA PAK SPARKS FSC CERTIFICATION DRIVE IN THE U.K.

摘要

For food-and-beverage manufacturers in the U.K. and Ireland, choosing a fully-validated eco-friendly packaging option for their products these days is about as easy as putting their product inside a Tetra Pak aseptic carton.rnThanks to a sustained effort by Tetra Pak to obtain FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification for its liquid food and beverage packaging, the lion's share of the company's cartons shipped to Great Britain and Ireland over the next 12 months-estimated to be about 1.5 billion cartons-will feature the vaunted FSC certification label, widely acknowledged to be the highest available standard for corporate commitment to responsible forest management.rnOriginally launched in late 2007 with conversion of the private-label brand of chopped tomatoes by U.K.'s largest grocer chain Sainsbury's into the FSC-certified Tetra Recart packs, the widely-praised switch was followed by similar conversion of the full Sainsbury's SO Organic range of red kidney beans, chickpeas, butter beans, green lentils, cannellini beans, haricot beans, black beans and soya beans.