PepsiCo, which owns Frito-Lay and Quaker Oats, has set a goal to design 100% of its packaging to be recyclable, compostable, biodegradable or reusable by 2025.
“Two years ago, if you think about our multipack packages, that’s our one ounce size in multipack servings, those packages were in another outer plastic. So we moved that from plastic into cardboard and recyclable cardboard,” he said.
That move alone was able to deliver 12 million pounds of plastic out of the environment, PepsiCo said
In April, Frito-Lay and Quaker Oats opened a new learning center for packaging innovation at Frito-Lay’s research and development headquarters in Texas, where it will field test, measure and analyze compostable packaging, aiming to make the process of testing products to certification-ready at least two to three times faster.
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