Potatopak NZ Ltd is a multi-award winning Blenheim (New Zealand) based company that manufactures innovative 100% Biodegradable food serving and packaging products out of Potato-starch, guaranteed not to last!
Potatopak’s driving ambition is to reduce and replace toxic undesirable, un-biodegradable Polystyrene and other plastics, from our global ecosystem. The perfect replacement being the 100% safe, 100% biodegradable equivalents made from potato starch waste. This highly innovative company is a past recipient of the NZ Packaging Council Environmental Packaging award in 1999, a NZ Environmental Green Heart award in 2000, and was named in the top 5 most exciting companies by NBR in 2002
Potatopak are committed to helping clean up the environment with a dual approach by utilizing the starch from potato processing plants waste water (clean green image) and converting the waste starch into a product that will help reduce landfill with its biodegradable qualities.
Potatopak NZ is an innovative world leader in the design and manufacture of Biodegradable packaging.
Why the helix?
It's a helix because, unlike recycling of fossil origin materials if we work with sustainable, crop origin materials it is not necessary to return wares to a point of origin to make the system work.
The leaves that fall from a tree don't have to be gathered up and be trucked to a special leaf scrapyard for cleaning, sorting and reprocessing. If we are to minimise the bad effects of our lifestyle on our environment, the way people use materials should follow the existing practices of the rest of nature as closely as possible.
| Plants grow making sugars, starches, oils, cellulose and complex molecules from simple raw materials, mostly water, CO2 and sunshine. | In addition to harvesting food, people extract fuel and base materials for industry and commerce. | Manufacturers make wares, measuring profitability in environmental and social terms as well as financial. | The end user reuses and repairs, only recycling after as long a useful life as possible. | At the end of its life the article decays, reducing large complex molecules to simple raw materials by the action of bacteria and fungi - composting. | Plants grow making sugars, starches, oils, cellulose and complex molecules from simple raw materials, mostly water, CO2 and sunshine. |
