rePAPER Achieved Home Compostable Certificate! Leading the Global Market with Unprecedented Environmentally Friendly Food Packaging!


rePAPER obtained Home Compostable Certificate, signifying the highest level of organic recyclability, compostability, of a product. In 2017, rePAPER was granted for Industrial Compostable Certificate by DIN CERTCO, which is given to a product that satisfies strict and thorough global standards to prove its harmlessness by passing chemical analysis, biodegradation test, and ecotoxicity test. Believing in our environmentally friendly technology, rePAPER kept moving forward to achieve home compostable certificate, proving that our products do not require any special facilities but can be composted in a backyard. Consequently, we are now able to present our products as brand-new global standards to environmentally friendly packaging industry, completely distinguishable from the conventional ones.  


Food Packaging vs Environment-friendly Food Packaging vs rePAPER’s Food Packaging

Acknowledging the food packaging takes up the 2nd largest portion of the marine waste, consumers in the world have been more concerned about the microplastic issue and the ecosystem pollution resulting from it. Paper food packaging is also one of the major causes for the contamination. The paper products such as paper cups, plates and trays are lined with PE(polyethylene) for waterproof property, but it prevents them from being recycled or composted, resulting in serious environmental problems.

Unlike their look, they are not regular paper, but are another type of plastic composite. Some might advertise their products to be compostable, yet these are only composted at industrial composting facilities under a certain condition. Furthermore, most of them are not even properly composted while the safety of the by-product in the environment cannot be guaranteed. The problem is that consumers are limited to such information but exposed to ideal eco-friendly copies. Such green washing marketing stirs up the confusion in the market and delays the development of alternatives.

The world has been striving to reduce the use of disposable packaging, especially the ones that are not recyclable or compostable. Each country announces a road map to motivate the switch to sustainable packaging based on the revised regulation. However, as the disposables are mostly used for hygiene and convenience, it will be difficult to resolve the fundamental problem by reducing the use only.

rePAPER’s packaging is not only repulpable, but also ovenable and toxic/PFAS-free. Now, with the home compostable certificate, it is proven to be the most optimal solution to settle down the market confusion.

Now, let’s find our more details about the home compostable certificate rePAPER achieved!

 

How is Home Compostable Certificate Different from Industrial One?

Composting Certificate for Home and Garden, granted by DIN CERTCO, is only allowed for an environmentally friendly product that meets a higher standard of composting compared to the industrial composting condition. Instead of being controlled at a high temperature and humidity, the home composting-certified product is regarded to be easily compostable at an ambient temperature like regular paper.

According to the test reports, rePAPER’s REPA COAT shows superior biodegradation speed, even faster than cellulose. To put it simply, rePAPER’s products can be thrown into the backyard and become fertile soil for flows to grow in. It shows rePAPER’s food packaging is applied with the most advanced environmentally friendly technology.

 

rePAPER’s Eco-friendly Technology to Resolve All the Environmental Issues

Although the environmentally friendly properties of paper are well-known, it is challenging to replace the practical value of plastic. Yet, if our instinctive intimacy towards paper(trees) that has been always around us in history is combined with rePAPER’s paper coating technology that materializes functions of plastic containers, the paper industry will enter a new phase witnessing all the relevant industries returning to paper.

rePAPER has been developing coatings, specially designed for environmentally friendly paper food packaging that can be suggested as the most suitable alternative for plastic-free world. The environment-sound properties of rePAPER have been analyzed, evaluated, and proven by authorized testing and certificate institutions based on global standards. With the achievement of home compostable certificate, rePAPER is now establishing unprecedented global standards for environmentally friendly food packaging.

rePAPER will continuously work on development and commercialization of not only food-contact board but also industrial packaging through cooperative R&D with international partners and carry out a role as an accelerator for resource circulation cycle of packaging!


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