BIOPAP® ATLAS Hot meal casserole ground-breaking carbon footprint reduction in airline catering
The compostable, paper based BIOPAP® ATLAS hot meal casserole sets a new milestone in carbon footprint reduction for the airline catering.
INNOV HUB, the prominent Italian laboratory has just performed a Cradle-to-Grave LCA assessment on the innovative and compostable BIOPAP ATLAS SI 25 Hot meal casserole comparing it to the traditional Aluminium casserole.
The result is groundbreaking: BIOPAP ATLAS offers 2,5 times less CO2 emissions.
The impact is massive: The replacement of existing Aluminium casserole with the innovative BIOPAP® SI25 casserole will allow a saving of 35.6 KgCO2 emissions per 1.000 units. Considering an annual distribution of 40.000.000 units the saving would correspond to 1.424.960 KgCO2/year.
As far as CO2 emissions are concerned, this value corresponds approximately to the average CO2 emissions of 11.874.667 km using a medium-sized car.
If we take into consideration the average absorption of a tree in a year (about 7,5 kg CO2/year), this value is equivalent to the CO2 absorption of 189.995 trees/year.
The combination of high engineering design and automated manufacturing combined with 20 years’ experience in sustainable and compostable food packaging solutions has delivered this outstanding result. BIOPAP® ATLAS SI 25 hot meal casserole has been specifically designed to best perform in airline catering offering natural touch and feel and superior food passenger experience while offering also a smooth waste management turning waste into valuable resources through composting both food rests and BIOPAP® casseroles.
By using BIOPAP® ATLAS SI 25 casserole the airlines are directly benefiting form a significant carbon food print reduction in their operation and contribute to reduce the catering environmental impact, becoming fully circular. A growing number of Airports are starting and running own composting plants reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also creating a virtuous cycle with the neighbouring agricultural activities.
BIOPAP® Atlas hot meal tray is a powerful tool: OK compost Home, BPI and CIC certified, with a fully European supply chain based on renewable raw materials coming only from well-manged PEFC certified forests.
Scaling up BIOPAP® ATLAS SI 25 is easy, it can be directly used on existing automated high speed crimping lines.
With the up-coming WTCE fair in Hamburg, next week, this is going to be a key factor in discussions for the Airlines and more and more for the Airport Authorities also. Turn airline catering sustainable and circular.
