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ConAgra using recycled plastic in food trays

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By The Associated Press

Friday, Aug 29, 2008 - 07:05:17 am CDT

OMAHA — ConAgra Foods now uses recycled plastic in the trays for its frozen meals, and the company says that should keep about 8 million pounds of plastic out of landfills each year.

Nearly all the trays ConAgra uses in its Healthy Choice, Banquet and Kid Cuisine meals now include 30-to-40 percent recycled plastic.

The Omaha-based company says less energy will be used to produce the new trays.

ConAgra worked with Associated Packaging Technologies to design the trays.

A new process that cleans recycled plastic before it is used in the meal trays was needed, so the new trays could meet government standards for materials that come in direct contact with food.


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Dano wrote on August 29, 2008 8:05 am:
" Good work. Keep it up. Makes me even more of a customer. "

 Glad wrote on August 29, 2008 10:41 am:
" I'm glad that ConAgra is finally doing something good for the state. Maybe by using recycled plastic they are hoping we ignore the fact that they are members of the Grocery Manufacturers Association which is spending millions of dollars trying to cast bad light on Nebraska top industry...Agriculture. It sure is easy to blame ethanol and corn production in times of higher food costs and ignore the fact that ConAgra and other food companies are posting record profits during these times of higher food costs.

Remember ConAgra...Don't bite the hand that feeds you! "

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