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Snact is a London-based company prevented more than 50 tonnes of apples, bananas, blueberries and raspberries from going to landfill by creating snacks from surplus fruit.
Now they have a solution for it’s plastic packaging waste. In partnership with Israeli packaging company Tipa, Snact has launched packaging that takes six months to break down in garden compost. “We have found a way of being disposable without causing environmental damage,” says co-founder of Snact Ilana Taub.

Sustainable packaging developer Tipa has announced its UK brand partnership with Snact, a social enterprise making snacks from surplus product.

Ilana Taub co-Founder of Snact said: “We launched our new packaging in December last year with traditional plastic as we struggled to find an environmentally-friendly option that had the functional properties required as well as being food safe. We were introduced to TIPA through another company and quickly released it was the perfect option to build on our environmental and social ethics”

A small food company meets a clean-tech start-up and decides to take on the world – the vision behind a new Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign called “Better for the Planet” that was launched by Sheffa Foods with TIPA’s Compostable Packaging