Green Packaging Solutions for Frozen Pizzas: A Sustainable Approach

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So much goes into frozen pizza production, such as R&D, production logistics, and product shipping. However, the product life cycle doesn’t end at the customer’s table. The product packaging lasts beyond the point of purchase, and labels want their products to stay as fresh as possible for the customer. But in a world of single-use containers and packaging, how can frozen pizza labels achieve green pizza packaging to make their business practices more sustainable?

At Quantum, we’ve developed automated pizza equipment to help brands implement green packaging solutions in their production processes. Here, we’ll explore which Quantum tech can make your pizza assembly line more sustainable by making green pizza packaging easier to achieve. But first, we’ll dive into why sustainable pizza packaging and manufacturing is important for brands to implement and ways to avoid wasteful pizza packaging.

 

Why Sustainable Pizza Packaging and Manufacturing is Critical for Your Company

Food production creates more than 25% of annual greenhouse gases. As a result, implementing sustainable pizza packaging and manufacturing is important for your company to be more environmentally friendly by manufacturing its products responsibly. Investing in sustainable pizza packaging and manufacturing conserves ingredients and resources, mitigates your brand’s effect on the environment, and even streamlines overhead costs. 

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Conserves Ingredients and Resources

Sustainable pizza packaging and manufacturing helps brands save on ingredients and resources. Green manufacturing technology reduces food waste by improving production consistency and quality. This reduces the amount of wasted ingredients and whole food products thrown out due to failed QC. This technology also maximizes the efficiency of water and energy use, like that in Quantum equipment, allowing brands to further conserve ingredients and resources. 

 

Mitigates Effect on the Environment

Conserving ingredients and resources leads companies to mitigate their effect on the environment. Reducing water and energy use requires less of the environment, and eco-friendly equipment makes this possible. Green tech also reduces food waste, which contributes to greenhouse gases when in a landfill. Quantum equipment limits ingredient use and failed QC, helping companies reduce food waste and their contribution to these greenhouse gases.  

Green pizza packaging also improves sustainability beyond the product’s life cycle through biodegradability. Food manufacturers have a responsibility to optimize the sustainability of their products, from assembly through customers tossing out the packaging. Frozen foods typically have many layers of packaging. Decreasing the number of packaging types and/or incorporating biodegradable materials can help brands lessen the effect on their environment. 

 

Streamlines Overhead Costs

Lastly, conserving water and energy use and mitigating your effect on the environment streamlines overhead costs. Employing sustainable automated food equipment lowers overhead costs by reducing the amount of resources the production process uses. Frozen pizza brands can save on water, energy, and excess ingredient costs when they implement eco-friendly tech like Quantum equipment.

Resource conservation, lessening your brand’s impact on the environment, and streamlining overhead costs are why brands should rely on sustainable pizza packaging and manufacturing processes. Now, let’s look into how labels can avoid wasteful pizza packaging to further dedicate efforts to greener manufacturing methods.

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Ways to Avoid Wasteful Pizza Packaging

Going green is easier said than done. However, if your brand knows where to start, implementing sustainable pizza packaging is simple and effective. In addition to conserving energy and resources, using green pizza packaging improves production sustainability, To avoid wasteful pizza packing, we recommend researching green packaging solutions and employing eco-friendly equipment.

 

Research Green Packaging Solutions

Not all packaging is built equally. Now that the food industry has had the technology to create and use recyclable materials, it is easier than ever to find packaging that’s less harsh on the environment. Your company can research green packaging solutions that can work for your brand that are also biodegradable and/or recyclable. This lessens the packaging’s impact on the environment, once tossed out.

 

Employ Eco-Friendly Equipment for Greener Packaging

In addition to green packaging, there are eco-friendly equipment and manufacturing processes that can also reduce wasteful pizza packaging. Green pizza packaging also includes eco-conscious production methods that help mitigate food manufacturing’s effect on the environment. This kind of technology can prepare products for packaging to limit both whole product and packaging waste. Next, we’ll focus on simplifying recycling pizza packaging and paper pizza packaging by exploring specific Quantum equipment that improves production sustainability.

 

Simplifying Recycling Pizza Packaging and Paper Pizza Packaging

Your frozen pizza company can easily simplify recycling pizza packaging and paper pizza packaging with Quantum equipment. At Quantum, we offer automated solutions that improve pizza production so labels can streamline their packaging. Our Circle Placers, Ingredient Applicators, and Conveyors all improve production to make sustainable packaging possible.

 

Quantum Circle Placers

Quantum Circle Placers can place corrugated cardboard circles, squares, and rectangles of different sizes onto conveyors. These circle placers keep products aligned for proper ingredient application, avoiding ingredient waste and products not passing QC. Circle placers simplify recycling pizza packaging and paper pizza packaging because the cardboard also prepares the product for streamlined packaging. 

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Quantum Ingredient Applicators

Quantum Ingredient Applicators include the following:

  • Sauce Applicators
  • Cheese/Topping Applicators
  • Meat/Pepperoni Slicers
  • Dry/Granular Ingredient Applicators

Each of our ingredient applicator types is designed to conserve energy and ingredient use, regardless of target or waterfall application. Target application uses a specified amount of ingredients, whereas reclaim systems with waterfall applications also limit ingredient waste. Our equipment is precise, allowing each product to be built according to specification and to be ready for packaging. High-quality and consistent products are ideal for effective green pizza packaging. At Quantum, we make this possible.

 

Quantum Conveyors

Lastly, our Quantum conveyors are also important pieces of equipment in sustainable food manufacturing. Quantum Infeed Orientation Systems ensure proper alignment of products under an ingredient applicator, further promoting ingredient conservation and streamlined packaging. Our Reclaim Conveyors also limit ingredient waste, immediately improving sustainability for brands. Quantum Water Spray Conveyors spray a light mist of water over products before packaging and freezing, all while conserving the amount of water used. Quantum Water Spray Conveyors contribute to green pizza packaging because they prepare the product for successful transportation and shelf life, avoiding unnecessary product waste.

 

Improve Production Sustainability With Quantum

At Quantum Technical Services, we make sustainability easy to achieve in the frozen food industry. We design our automated pizza equipment with the latest tech, allowing companies to conserve ingredients, resources, and costs. Frozen pizza labels can readily apply our green packaging solutions to make their production more sustainable as soon as possible. Whether your brand is adding just one of our eco-friendly machines or upgrading its entire production process, it will find sustainable equipment at Quantum. Contact us today to learn more about our green tech that can also improve quality and consistency.