Sustainability
Sustainability in Food Packaging: Impact You Can Measure
Sustainability vision and overview
Advancing Sustainability Through Better Packaging Design
We work closely with food brands, retailers, and foodservice operators to identify packaging solutions that support sustainability goals while meeting operational and regulatory requirements. By focusing on sustainable food packaging made from paperboard, SOLUT! helps customers reduce plastic packaging without sacrificing performance, food safety, or shelf appeal.
Our paperboard food packaging is designed as a plastic alternative for real-world food applications — balancing recyclability, compostability where appropriate, and operational efficiency.
Reducing Plastic Where It Matters Most
Reducing plastic is one of the most immediate ways food brands and retailers can make meaningful sustainability progress.
SOLUT! paperboard packaging is designed to replace plastic trays, clamshells, and foil-based formats in bakery, deli, grab-and-go, and prepared food applications while maintaining performance and shelf appeal.
Compostable Packaging, Where It Makes Sense
Compostable packaging can play an important role in certain foodservice and retail programs. SOLUT! offers compostable paperboard packaging options for applications and regions where commercial composting infrastructure exists and supports proper end-of-life outcomes.
We work with customers to evaluate when compostable solutions are appropriate and when recyclable paperboard may deliver greater real-world impact.
Recycling Starts With the Right Design
Recycling works best when packaging is designed for existing systems. SOLUT! paperboard packaging is engineered to be repulpable and compatible with common paper recycling processes, helping support higher recovery rates when disposed of properly.
We provide guidance to help customers and consumers understand how to properly dispose of packaging, supporting higher recovery rates and better outcomes.
Paper vs Plastic
Paper and plastic behave very differently throughout their lifecycle. Paperboard packaging is made from renewable fiber, is widely recyclable, and can be repulped into new paper products. Plastic packaging often relies on fossil-based materials and can be more difficult to recover at scale.
SOLUT! focuses on applications where paperboard delivers both environmental and functional advantages, helping customers make informed choices based on performance, availability of recycling or composting, and real-world use.
One simple change — from plastic to paper — can eliminate thousands of pounds of plastic waste each year. And we’re proving it across the country. At SOLUT!, we’ve partnered with top retailers like Sam’s Club, Kroger, and Hy-Vee, Inc. to make sustainable packaging the new standard in bakery and deli.
Through sustainable packaging solutions, we help customers eliminate millions of pounds of plastic waste each year.
Made in the USA. FSC certified. Recyclable. Ovenable. Retail-ready.
- Less plastic
- Same performance
- Better for the planet