Natoora Success Story

Natoora success story

Natoora’s Radically Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables are Now Available in Plastic-Free pre-packs

“We wanted to reduce our environmental impact in a meaningful way, and this meant changing the way consumers would receive fresh produce ordered online or bought through our partners in pre-packs.”

Franco Fubini
Natoora founder and CEO

Founded in London in 2004 with a vision for sustainability and seasonality, Natoora began as “the first online farmer’s market,” connecting consumers with farm-fresh and seasonal fruit and vegetables, fresh fish, cheese, and meat from all over the country. Their sustainability mission has always been clear: the health of the soil is paramount to the health of the fruit, which is why TIPA®’s compostable packaging made a perfect fit for their produce. Replacing the conventional plastic packaging on Natoora’s pre-packs meant finding a high-performance compostable packaging for fresh produce that would keep their delicate fruit and vegetables well-protected and fresh.

Natoora chose pillow bags for punnets made from TIPA 302, TIPA®’s home compostable film, which wraps a fully recyclable punnet for their Plastic Free™ packaging. Natoora worked with ULMA packaging machinery to pack their fruit and vegetables.

“We wanted to reduce our environmental impact in a meaningful way, and this meant changing the way consumers would receive fresh produce ordered online or bought through our partners in pre-packs,” said Natoora’s founder and CEO Franco Fubini. “It was important for us to work within the existing frameworks established by Ocado, Waitrose and Whole Foods and reduce our footprint in a way that reflects how people are increasingly shopping for fresh produce,” says the brand, “It would be naive to try to blow the entire system apart when you can have a much wider impact by working alongside existing infrastructure.”

Natoora's compostable choice:

Tipa compostable cereal bag
High-quality flow-wrap bags with horizontal or vertical fin or lap seal, and durable seal on both ends.
Home compostable
Highly transparent film
Printable and sealable
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