Leading the way for sustainable food packaging, following over 12 months of discussions, testing and trialling, vegan brand, The Happy Pear has finally found how to produce its healthy meals and new wholefood burgers range using a fully home compostable trays. The new packaging is made from sustainably sourced virgin paper pulp board and lined with a unique biofilm. Being certified home compostable, after you’ve finished using them, the trays can accompany your food waste and be put directly in your garden compost heap, or, if you have one, into your brown bin. “Eating more fruit and vegetables is one of the kindest things we can do for our planet and at The Happy Pear, we want to create a healthier and happier world. That’s why we make delicious and healthy plant-based food and we’re doing our best to put it in more sustainable and environmentally-friendly packaging, such as our healthy meals and new wholefood burgers,” said Stephen Flynn, co-founder.
The compostable trays are not the only sustainable packaging that The Happy Pear has introduced. In October 2018, they introduced their healthier Bites range in industrially compostable packaging, followed by the relaunch of their range of granola, including the popular Cool Jim’s Granola, as well as relaunching their living sprouts range in fully compostable packaging earlier this year. With the addition of the new meal and burger trays, 55 per cent of the total number of The Happy Pear products have compostable packaging (eight home compostable and 10 industrially compostable). This cutting-edge progress is leading the way for the wider industry to follow. “From the beginning, sustainability has been at the core of The Happy Pear. We are taking massive steps and making big improvements on the sustainability of our packaging. We are far from perfect, but we are making strong progress. Work is underway to bring innovative sustainable solutions for some of our other products,” said co-founder David Flynn.