TC Transcontinental Packaging Earns Puppy Meals Sustainability Honor

TC Transcontinental Packaging, which gives versatile packaging for dog food and different user merchandise, has been identified through the Puppy Sustainability Coalition (PSC) for its sustainability efficiency.

PSC named the corporate a Best Performer for 2022/2023 within the Earth Defender class of the PSC environmental awards program.

TC Transcontinental Packaging used to be a few of the most sensible 10 scoring PSC-accredited firms within the Earth Defender Class. It received PSC accreditation previous this 12 months after a third-party validation of its environmental and social affect.

Competition’ Earth Defender ratings had been in response to environmental problems comprising:

• Blank water and sanitation.
• Inexpensive and blank power.
• Business, innovation, and infrastructure.
• Sustainable towns and communities.
• Accountable intake and manufacturing.
• Local weather motion.
• Existence under water.
• Existence on land.

“We’re commemorated to be identified for our sustainability tasks,” says Thomas Morin, president of TC Transcontinental Packaging. “Through demonstrating management in sustainable packaging, we offer our consumers with a street map to minimize their environmental footprint and create long-term price for stakeholders.”

TC Transcontinental Packaging’s environmentally pleasant answers for dog food come with its VieVERTe merchandise, which provide the advantages of typical versatile meals packaging — barrier, power, efficiency, shelf balance, and shelf attraction — plus recyclability.

The goods are comprised of monomaterial polyethylene (PE) and are to be had in rollstock or as completed luggage and pouches. The packaging is pre-approved for How2Recycle certification within the in-store drop-off class. Publish-consumer recycled (PCR) content material will also be included within the merchandise.

TC Transcontinental Packaging’s function is to make 100% of its plastic packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable through 2025.

“We’re dedicated to development a sustainable long run, and our formidable goals are aligned with the UN Sustainable Building Objectives to handle local weather alternate and to cut back environmental affects,” says Magali Depras, TC Transcontinental’s leader technique and company social duty officer.

The PSC popularity “encourages us to proceed to give a contribution to the ecological transition this is already underway,” Depras provides.

TC Transcontinental Packaging makes a speciality of recycling, extrusion, lamination, printing, and changing and serves a number of user, business, agricultural, and clinical markets. It has operations in the USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.