St. Johns Packaging together with SABIC and Allied Bakeries announced the successful commercial launch of the world's first bread packaging bag made of a high percentage of recycled plastic. Bread in similar bags went on sale in UK supermarkets.

The bags are manufactured by St. Johns Packaging and consist of 30% recycled polyethylene supplied by SABIC. SABIC, working with advanced recycling technologies, converts used and blended plastics into pyrolysis oil, which is then used to produce new polymers of the same purity and quality as traditional virgin plastics.

In the future, these bread bags can also be sent for recycling. “We want everyone in the UK to know that bread bags can and should be recycled.” says Chris Craig, co-managing director of Allied Bakeries. At the same time, he emphasizes that it is necessary to introduce the processing of soft plastics so that it can be used to obtain material for projects such as the presented bread bag, and that there may be a shortage of soft recycled plastic.

As a reminder, from April 2022 the UK will impose a tax on packaging made from virgin plastic and from plastic containing less than 30% recycled materials. Which will certainly hit many UK companies and encourage them to develop alternative packaging solutions.

Materials from sites sjpack.com, packaginginsights.com were used.