Ajinomoto Co., Inc. has switched tic wastes by 2030” and into the packaging of many of its products. The deci-sion to switch “AJI-NO-MOTO” and “Hi-Me” to paper packaging is a big move along the journey to achieve the goal.looked “We’ve worked the packaging of a number of our products while opting for paper without changing the prod-uct contents is our very first time that we encountered quite a lot of techni-cal problems indeed. Particularly, we are talking about ‘AJI-NO-MOTO’, the product having the same name as our corporate. It’s our longtime seller since our establishment. It’s also the symbol of all our environmental measures of the year, so we need to, at all events, put extra effort on it,” claimed Mr. Fumihiro Miyasaka, who is the manag-er and in charge of product develop-ment in the Umami seasoning group, Seasoning Business Division, Food Business Department of the corporate. Mr. Miyasaka added that the rea-son to opt for paper is, “mono-material packaging contributes tremendously to solve environmental issues for its biodegradable and compostable film. It can be recycled as a new packaging material but unfortunately the provision is behind standard. On the other hand, switching to paper packaging help to reduce plastic wastes to a certain ex-tent that consumers are involved right from the moment of their purchase. Our resources are limited and they are all coming to their end soon, so we would love to work on environmental issues using renewable materials in the carbon cycle.”Pinhole-resistance and vapor barrier considerationsPaper is not an easy option due to a string of problems. The paper packag-ing for hard crystalloid seasoning like “AJI-NO-MOTO” and “Hi-Me” might get torn in the logistics and transpor-tation processes. There are also wor-ries about the sealing ability of paper Mr. Fumihiro Miyasaka, Mr. Toshio Sugahara, Mr. Yusuke Honda, Ms. Miho Higuchi, and Mr. Kosuke Usui (from left to right)“AJI-NO-MOTO” and “Hi-Me” in paper packaging16the packaging of “AJI-NO-MOTO” and “Hi-Me”- its pride and longtime best seller from plastic to paper aiming to accomplish its corporate goal of “elimination of plastic wastes by 2030”. The move contributes to reduce 12 tons of plastic waste every year. The new paper packaging keeps the same shape of the current package, which also perform the same functions.“AJI-NO-MOTO” has the same name of the corporate, it thus symbolizes the annual environmental measures of the corporatePlastic is becoming a huge environ-mental concern especially in recent years that more and more people wish to eliminate plastic in their lifetime to change the scenery. Aiming to tackle the issue, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. set its corporate goal as “elimination of plas-
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