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100% paper sustainable packaging – Italian Cuisine

Dignity to the land is the company's motto. A new identity to celebrate half a century of the company from the Marche that presents a new sustainable packaging 100% paper and a rebranding that reinforces the values of the past

The Gino Girolomoni Agricultural Cooperative, Marche-based company producing pasta (and not only), makes the leap with a new identity and brand vision, with a new sustainable packaging 100% paper, presented in recent days at SANA 2021, at Bologna Fiere.

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The brand, a reflection of a creed

"50 years a story like ours is not told in a few lines, but celebrated with many. – begins like this Giovanni Battista Girolomoni, President of the Gino Girolomoni Agricultural Cooperative and son of the founder Gino – Our story begins with a dream, the dream of my father, pioneer of organic farming in Italy, activist, intellectual, essayist but, more than anything else, a farmer. His entire life has been dedicated to a vision: to restore dignity to the land and its guardians, the peasants. 50 years after the start of this project, we want to reiterate that his commitment is still ours, today and for the future. "
Faithful to the thought and legacy of Gino Girolomoni, today's Girolomoni reaffirms its dream and commitment: "Dignity to the earth!" goal and mission of the company.

Gino Girolomoni, founder of the Gino Girolomoni Agricultural Cooperative

The commitment to sustainability takes on a new identity

The Cooperative's commitment is aimed at one 100% organic integrated supply chain. A commitment that does not end in production, but extends to become a welcome, with a farmhouse and an inn, an educational farm for dissemination and meeting, a Foundation to nourish the cultural aspect and finally the arrival of a new 100% paper sustainable packaging.
"In renewing our identity, our name and our monastery have firmly remained the guarantee of our products together with the image of our founder. Logo and symbol form a unique whole, to tell even more strongly our bond with our places, with our land. " says Giovanni Battista Girolomoni.

john-baptist — Giovanni Battista Girolomoni, President of the Gino Girolomoni Agricultural Cooperative

Sustainable packaging closes the circle of the supply chain

The packaging, represents the last link of a entire virtuous and sustainable supply chain.
“We wondered for a long time about which was the ideal packaging solution to“ close the circle ”, managing this step directly in the least impactful way possible. We chose the paper ”.
Two types of packaging have been chosen for the 2 main product lines:

For the line Durum wheat, the accessible range, a 100% paper reel from responsibly managed forests – Aticelca class A certificate. The printing inks are water based and the heat seal lacquers are water based and solvent free.

For the Ancient grains, our most precious range, we have chosen a 100% recyclable paper bag from responsibly managed forests, with separable cellulose film window, differentiable in the wet. The window, applied in register to avoid waste, enhances the grain and color of our ancient grain pastes, doing justice to the richness of shades of our products.

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"For us, organic farming is a way of life. This is why our commitment is aimed at every aspect of the supply chain. A supply chain that wants to be a virtuous expression of peasant civilization in which values such as respect for man and nature and the importance of the given word persist and are still central, which today translate into the use and research of energy from sources renewables, in enhancing the experience and work of farmers, in guaranteeing the consumer a product obtained from Italian raw materials at a fair price, in preserving the natural heritage and the rural landscape. " Girolomoni concludes.

The ecological and innovative future of packaging and packaging – Italian Cuisine

From the technological and recyclable boxes of The Box to the new natural and biodegradable frontiers of food packaging: let's take a look at the possible packaging of the future

In a period in which the issue of home delivery and online shopping is on the agenda and of vital importance, it may be interesting to take a look at the possible future scenario regarding packaging and food packaging. While due to recent changes, the focus is mainly on deliveries of local products, food & beverage and basic necessities, the world continues to study increasingly practical, innovative, ecological and biodegradable solutions for cartons and packaging of various type. In the global perspective of reduce air pollution and the use of plastic, let's find out what's new in the present and the future, both on the shipping front and on that of the storage and packaging of food products.

The box: the eco-box that lasts 1000 shipments

From an idea of French startup Living Packets a new one was born ecological and technological box designed primarily as packaging of the future for e-commerce sites and giants such as Amazon or Ebay. This product, simply called The Box, not only can be used over a thousand times, but it is made almost exclusively with recycled materials, including special belts that protect the contents and which would replace the classic shock-absorbing and polluting packaging. The box is then equipped with technological equipment equipped with sensors, realtime tracking, GPS system and connectivity, which thanks to the connection to an app not only allows you to monitor the shipment, but also to reset its parameters if you wish to reuse it. Finally, it is also equipped with sensors that allow you to evaluate whether the conditions of transport are adequate, and a mini video camera that will determine if the package was opened before the recipient received it. Available in two formats, 1 liter and 25 liters, the revolutionary ecological and resistant box is expected to enter the market by the end of 2020, and the expected cost of its shipment is only 2 euros.
In short, if the giants of the global shipping market were to adopt a similar system, it could be significantly limit the environmental impact. All that remains is to wait and see.

Plastic-free packaging: towards a greener future

The question arises spontaneously, but if the contents of futuristic and recyclable packaging for shipments in Italy and in the world were to be foodstuffs, how can we be sure that these too will not impact the environment? In this sense, in recent years, the food packaging has made great strides and many are the food brands, both Italian and foreign, that have introduced ecological and plastic-free packaging. These include frozen foods sold in cellulose or bioplastic packs, drinks in bottles or biodegradable or Tetrapak cans or already washed salads packed in natural and compostable bags. In Italy, the response to food with ecological packaging has been positive, so much so that in 2019 there was an increase in turnover of 24.5%.

In the last year, in addition to these great steps forward by companies and consumers in the food packaging sector, we have witnessed important changes also on the front of wrappers, bags and ecological food films as alternatives to plastic, with new proposals developed by companies and start-ups from all over the world. In 2019, for example, the American start-up Apeelsciences launched a new revolutionary spray coating which is able to better preserve food and which is already recording excellent sales in the USA and in some European countries.
In Indonesia the start-up Evoware stood out for the creation of packaging made with algae, from films for hamburgers, to sachets for instant coffee up to flavored edible containers.
A Swedish design studio called Tomorrow Machine worked on a beautiful and biodegradable food packaging line, nicknamed This Too Shall Pass, which includes algae bags to freeze liquids from the same duration of its contents, packages made with colored beeswax to store rice and pasta and oil bottles made with caramelized sugar and wax which open like an egg, then suitable for compost.

In short, now that the unwanted consequences of plastic are becoming more visible, we cannot but hope that more and more food companies, start-ups and consumers will join forces to adopt low environmental impact shipping and packaging solutions.

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An Instagram account on the senseless packaging of British supermarkets – Italian Cuisine

In the UK, an Instagram account raises awareness of the problem of "senseless packaging", that is, food, plastic and disposable packaging, present massively in British supermarkets

Disposal and disposalimpact of plastic waste on our planet it is one of the greatest environmental problems of our times. In UK one of the main causes is represented by the excessive quantity of food packaging present in supermarkets. According to official estimates, in fact, this plastic and disposable packaging amounts to 900 thousand tons every year, a truly alarming figure also highlighted by recent polls and media inquiries. Just to make consumers aware of this problem, an Instagram account was born called Pointless Packaging which collects photos of "senseless packaging" taken in British supermarket chains. This initiative represents an original, fun and engaging way to inform and actively contribute to a possible change.

Horrors collection of English food packaging

L'@pointless_packaging account, followed by over 40 thousand followers and growing continuously, has become a point of reference for British consumers outraged byexcessive and senseless use of plastic packaging in supermarkets. The many shared photos concern voluminous and unnecessary packages of fruit, vegetables and food of all kinds, always accompanied by a funny, sometimes even hilarious text. Among the many foodstuffs packed in an absurd way, we find for example fruit such as oranges, avocados and coconut deprived of their natural protective coating and sometimes even cut in two halves and plasticized; small pieces of pineapple or avocado sold in small plastic bags; oversized packaging containing single units of chillies, strawberries or cherry tomatoes; cheap food and generally sold in large quantities, for example potatoes, bananas, carrots or eggs, individually wrapped. There is also no shortage almost surreal packaging ranging from cans of Coca Cola packed to loose candies and then placed in plastic bags, but also those designed for the lazy consumer that include peeled onions, sliced tomatoes and shelled eggs. Although it's funny to see these images, the ultimate goal of the account is not only to entertain users or to make fun of the amount of plastic that dominates the shelves of supermarkets, but to inform and raise public awareness.

Towards a possible environmental change

The creators of @pointless_packaging aim to involve users, to make them reflect, to feed discussions on this theme and to find together a possible solution. Their community is then invited to sign one Greenpeace petition to "free British supermarkets from plastic". According to a report by the environmental association, in fact, UK supermarkets place at least 59 billion disposable packaging items on the market every year, or about 900 pieces per inhabitant. This petition is aimed precisely at drastic reduction of single-use plastic packagingas well as greater involvement by the government to find viable and more sustainable alternatives.

Although some supermarkets have tested and announced measures to decrease the plastic used, the solution to the problem is much more complex and requires active intervention on several fronts.

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Dignity to the land is the company's motto. A new identity to celebrate half a century of the company from the Marche that presents a new sustainable packaging 100% paper and a rebranding that reinforces the values ​​of the past