The change is in collaboration with leading packaging manufacturer Faerch and will see customer-recovered PET trays, which are collected via kerbside waste, recycled and converted back into food grade plastic trays.
Tesco’s ready meal trays already contain up to 75% of recycled content, mainly from cleaner and easier to recycle bottle flake plastic. Through the new Tray 2 Tray by Faerch™ programme, a minimum of 30% recycled tray content will be included in the new core chilled ready meals trays.
A phased rollout of the new trays will take place this month (April) across Tesco’s core own brand chilled ready meals. The collaboration will ensure high quality food-grade PET is kept within the supply chain, rather than being downcycled, and demonstrates PET packaging from trays can be fully recovered and recycled at an industrial scale.
Adele Kearns, Packaging Development Manager at Tesco, said: “We're absolutely determined to close the loop on our packaging, for it to be fully recyclable and contain recycled content wherever this is possible.
"We remain committed to reducing our environmental impact, and helping our customers do the same, as we work together to protect our planet.”
Ruth Price, Strategic Sales Manager at Faerch UK, said: “We’re delighted to launch our Tray 2 Tray by Faerch™ programme with Tesco, an essential initiative that promotes circular food packaging in the economy, and we are committed to working with our customers to keep rigid food packaging in the economy and out of the environment.
"Our collaboration with Tesco is the perfect example of how material from EU waste resources can be diverted into a valuable commodity. Moving forward, our intention is to not only increase the level of tray-to-tray content but to also start taking this from local UK feedstocks”.
Tesco also works alongside suppliers to drive change across products – eliminating all hard-to-recycle material from UK packaging in 2019 - and supports industry action including the UK Plastics Pact, which tackles the impact of plastic waste.
• Lines that have changed or will change over the coming weeks are:
o SPINACH & RICOTTA CANNELLONI 400G
o TOMATO & MOZZARELLA PENNE 400G
o SPAGHETTI & MEATBALL 400G
o TUNA BAKE 400G
o BEEF LASAGNE 400G
o VEGETABLE LASAGNE 400G
o SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE 400G
o SPAGHETTI CARBONARA 400G
o HAM & MUSHROOM TAG 400G
o CHICKEN ARRAB 400G
o PEPPERONI PASTA BAKE 400G
o ITALIAN CHICKEN & BACON PASTA BAKE 400G
o MACARONI CHEESE 400G
o CHICKEN & CHORIZO PASTA 400G
o PESTO PASTA 400G
o LENTIL BAKE 400G
o ITALIAN CHICKEN & BACON PASTA BAKE 750G
o BEEF LASAGNE 750G
o MACARONI CHEESE 750g
o THREE CHEESE MELT 750G
o PEPPERONI PASTA 750G
o BEEF LASAGNE 1.5KG
o CHICKEN, TOMATO & MOZZARELLA 1.5KG
o CARBONARA PASTA BAKE 1.5KG
o BEEF LASAGNE 1.5KG
o CHICKEN, TOMATO & MOZZARELLA 1.5KG
o CARBONARA PASTA BAKE 1.5KG
You can learn about Faerch here https://www.faerch.com/en
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