Fashion for Good, the global platform supporting innovation in the fashion industry, is augmenting its ongoing effort to introduce better packaging for apparel and footwear.
The organization has launched the Home-Compostable Polybag Project, a six-month pilot program in partnership with Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) and German retailer C&A, that will test alternatives to conventional single-use plastic bags that are used to protect and ship merchandise in the apparel and footwear sectors. Soluble Film Pva
An estimated 180 billion are produced each year according to Fashion for Good. Virgin polybags usually use fossil fuel to produced their plastic, have a high carbon footprint and are rarely recycled and usually landfilled.
The new initiative will see LS&Co. and C&A use bags made from bio-based material and can be composted at home or in community compost piles. TIPA Corp. and Greenhope, two sustainably minded packaging companies, helped create the bags.
Water Soluble Pva Film TIPA Corp. is certified by TÜV Austria OK Compost Home and Greenhope is undergoing certification for DIN CERTCO Home Compostable. These certifications are according to both the French standard NFT 51-800 and the Australian standard AS 5810. Related Story