Video, the packaging from… squeezing fruit and vegetables

From EMPA and Lidl a new coating made of… “pomace”, which involves the elimination of plastic packaging and preserves vegetables well

Together with a protagonist of large-scale retail trade such as Lidl Switzerland, the researchers of the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology have developed a protective cover for agricultural products based on renewable raw materials.
It is a coating in cellulose for fruit and vegetables that we usually find on the market in supermarkets.
The new "packaging” is made with the so-called “chance", Meaning what squeezed vegetable peelings, such as apples and carrots, and was developed between the headquarters of Dübendorf, St. Gallen and Thun'sEMPA.
The decidedly innovative Swiss project can reduce packaging and, consequently, prevent food waste: in trials, the shelf life of, for example, bananas it was extended by more than a week.
“The big goal is to ensure that, in the future, these bio-coatings can replace many petroleum-based packaging”Says Gustav Nyström, head of the EMPA laboratory.
The innovative packaging project is supported by Innosuisse,Swiss Agency for the promotion of innovation, which cares about all the scientific and technological innovations capable of have a decisive impact on the well-being of the population.
The goal is for the new technology to be used in all 150 Lidl stores in Switzerland after the success of the main tests.

If in Switzerland the packaging of vegetables is the vegetable itself