Circular food packaging at Faerch

Together for circularity in food packaging

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We are committed to helping drive our industry towards circularity

Food packaging plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of food products and avoiding food waste, but we need to be mindful of the impact we have on the world around us. As a leading provider of food packaging and circular PET recycling, we are aware of our responsibility in addressing the challenges facing our industry. Responsible business practises and sustainability have long been at the heart of our DNA, business strategy, and daily operations. We are committed to helping drive our industry towards true circularity.

We believe that a circular economy for food packaging is essential to ensuring a more sustainable future. This is not a distant vision at Faerch. The reality is that Faerch designs food packaging that protects food and keeps it safe while reducing food waste. And we innovate to ensure that our food packaging solutions can be recycled – keeping them in the economy and out of the environment. This is how we make sure that rigid food packaging is properly reused in a circular economy again and again.

 

Leading the transition to circular rigid food packaging

In our 2023 sustainability report we highlight the targets we have set and the initiatives which we will be rolled out in 2024. It emphasises how we are taking care of our employees and being responsible to everyone we are doing business with.

 

Read the report as an eBook

 

Certified transparency

At Faerch, we believe that more transparency is needed in the industry to help customers compare and evaluate products properly. As a consequence, we offer third-party validation of the post-consumer and pre-consumer content (rPET) in our recipes based according to ISO definitions. Our aim is to set a new industry standard allowing customers and consumers to identify and distinguish the real sustainability level of a food packaging product.

 

See how we do it

 

 

 

Our ambition is to lead the industry’s efforts in
making food packaging truly circular, and scaling our
recycling business is a vital part of our strategy.

 

 

 

 

 

The world’s first integrated recycler

We have introduced products with more post-consumer recycled content than any other on the market. In addition, our Cirrec recycling facility in the Netherlands makes us the only food packaging company in the world to operate as an integrated recycler of PET pots, tubs, and trays, enabling us to recycle used PET food packaging back into new food grade products on an industrial scale.

 

Turning waste into food grade material

 

Evolve by Faerch

The Evolve by Faerch concept is the perfect example of how to achieve a circular economy. The trays are made from European post-consumer recycled content and can be fully recycled into new food grade trays of the same quality – again and again.

 

A concept with purpose

 

This is how we ensure circularity in food packaging
How do we ensure circularity in food packaging?

In a circular economy, food trays are made from recycled material that, after use, can be recycled back into new food trays of the same quality without compromising on any functional properties.
We recycle at an industrial scale at 4PET
The world’s only integrated recycler

As the world’s only integrated tray-to-tray recycler, we have closed the loop on food packaging. We process food trays and recycle them back into new food grade material on an industrial scale.
Learn more about how we act responsibly
Responsible food packaging

Read more about the action we have taken to make our production of food packaging more sustainable. From powering our factories with 100% renewable energy to joining Operation Clean Sweep.
Find out more about the initiatives we support
Committed to sustainable food packaging

We need to collaborate across the food packaging value chain to drive change. We are proud to be part of the UK and European Plastics Pact, and we work closely with NGOs and academia to support circularity in food packaging.
Get the details on our sustainability targets and progress
Our targets and progress

Because of our leading position within plastic packaging for the food industry, we take our responsibility seriously. Stay up to date on our sustainability targets and progress.

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We have the ambition to
lead the industry’s efforts
in making food packaging circular...

Our 5 key values