SEALED AIR CORPORATION
356 and reused to make other plastics . In this particular case , here in New Zealand , it ’ s being transformed into plastic fence posts by an innovative company called Future Post ” says Basagre . “ Future post in particular is aiming to replace traditional timber fence posts found in the agriculture industry by converting the plastics into post , which means they minimise plastics ending up in landfill .” Sealed Air also works with Astron Plastics , which regrinds plastic material for much of the New Zealand market . “ We send our off cuts to Astron and they reprocess it for us to purchase back , in which we are then able to re-use in our own processing plant here in Auckland ,” he says . “ We ’ re trying to ensure we have that closed-loop process as we aim for a more circular economy .”
Sealed Air carried out a survey back in 2014 around ecommerce and online orders , and found that 58 % of consumers are more conscious about packaging materials than they were five years previously . Meanwhile , 77 % of consumers believe that packaging should reflect a retailer ’ s environmental values . Basagre says the study ’ s insights drove many back-of-house changes .
SEPTEMBER 2019