Naturally, plastics have not cornered the market in sustainable packaging. Nor do they have a monopoly in trade-offs between higher costs and smaller carbon footprints. Kevin Clarke's company KCC Packaging is marketing trays made from sugar cane waste fibre (as pictured, right). Unlike other forms of ready meal packaging, specifically aluminium or crystalline polyethylene terephthalate (CPET), it is either carbon neutral or better than neutral, he estimates.The energy consumed in production is much lower than with either. It is also home compostable.
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