Blanco Niño Lead the Way With Recyclable Tortilla Chip Packaging

If you are like my wife and I, you will feel guilty that whilst you enjoy eating tasty snacks that the packets say "not currently recyclable."

But those wonderful folk at Blanco Niño, the premium corn tortilla and tortilla chip producer, will take that guilty feeling away from all of us as they have switched to fully recyclable packaging for its award-winning range of corn tortilla chips. 

And Blanco Niño is the first premium corn tortilla chip brand in the UK and Ireland to move to fully recyclable packaging.

A typical plastic crisp packet worryingly takes several hundreds of years to decompose. In the UK alone, six billion packets are consumed every year and only a fraction of these are capable of being recycled at present.

Blanco Niño's new packaging is made from a specially developed plastic resin called polypropylene 5 which is widely recycled. The innovative new design will keep the product fresher for longer, too. 

Blanco Niño Founder and CEO Philip Martin says: “I'm looking forward to unveiling our new recyclable packaging to our customers. It's a momentous step for Blanco Niño in reducing our impact on the environment. We saw an opportunity to develop fully recyclable packaging and I'm very proud to say that we're one of the first to do so.”

The packaging is a special bespoke design with a window, featuring eye-catching stylised landscapes representing key ingredients of each flavour. The product range itself remains unchanged and retains the premium quality the brand has become justifiably famed for. The range includes Lightly Salted, Blue Corn (formerly called Ancient Grain) and Chilli & Lime. 

Blanco Niño's Director of Community, Ruth Jenkins added: “We've been humbled by the great response to the bag design and I feel it stands out on the shelves. For Blanco Niño as a brand, sustainability and doing the right thing has always been a priority from the beginning.”

“Consumers are rightly demanding more sustainable products and we as a team are delighted to rise to this challenge. It was definitely not easy or particularly straightforward but our R&D staff and processes made it possible for us. I hope we can lead the way and that others will follow our lead.”

Blanco Niño Tortilla Chips earned five stars at the Great Taste Awards 2022. Double stars for their Lightly Salted and Blue Corn flavours and a star for Chilli & Lime. Judges noted “A superb texture and mouthfeel, truly wonderful. Perfectly salted and a joy to eat, and we feel that this is a great example of a traditional tortilla chip. They are light, delicate and so very well produced, and we applaud your process and creation here.”

The tortilla chips are naturally gluten-free, vegan friendly, kosher certified and are made using the finest ingredients, some of which are sourced from heritage farmers in Mexico itself. 

Blanco Niño Tortilla Chips retail at £3.50 RRP and can be found at Ocado, Daylesford, Booths, Eat 17 and numerous independent food stores.

To learn more visit https://www.blanco-nino.com.