Australia uses around 250,000 tonnes of pallet wrap each year, a product mainly made with chemicals sourced from fossil fuels.
But one husband-and-wife team wants to change that with a process starting at the farm gate.
Mornington Peninsula-based Julia and Jordy Kay in Victoria are behind what they say is the world’s first compostable pallet wrap made from food waste.
The pallet wrap industry is big business. Most products that end up on the shelves of supermarkets and other bulk retailers have first been on a pallet encased in petroleum-based plastic.
“It’s a more back-of-house piece of waste that people don’t necessarily think about,” Julia Kay said….