Fresh food marketer in the US, Ready Pac Foods has announced that the company’s Ready Pac Bistro Bowl Salads line is set to use more than 56,000,000 recycled plastic beverage bottles in 2013.
In 2012, the company launched Ready Pac Bistro Organic Bowl Salads, new SKUs for the conventional line and new private label bowl salads.
Each of the Ready Pac bowl salad package, including the insert that separates protein ingredients as well as condiments from the salad greens, contains post-consumer recycled content of 60%.
According to the company, the bowls and inserts are produced in plants that are powered by 50% solar energy.
Each Ready Pac bowl salad package combines the energy savings of using recycled bottles and the solar energy savings versus conventional power and saves about 1,000 BTUs or 0.30 kilowatt hours of electric power, the company claimed.
