The new Tite-Pak recyclable institutional French fry bag packaging initiative has the potential to divert up to 30 million pounds of packaging material from the landfill to the recycling stream annually.
Lamb Weston, Eagle, Idaho, partnered with Graphic Packaging International Inc. (GPI), Atlanta, to develop Tite-Pak, an environmentally-friendly packaging that’s recyclable in the established Old Corrugated Container (OCC) and mixed paper recycling streams.
“At Lamb Weston, we’re committed to finding new and innovative ways to help our operators reduce waste, cut costs and ensure everyone is doing their part to protect the environment,” says Deb Dihel, vice president of innovation for Lamb Weston. “The optimized Tite-Pak packaging will reduce the environmental impacts of our product packaging by enabling the diversion of this material to be recycled in an already established recycling stream with no increased cost to the operator.”