PLA meat trays, pads offer alternative for Seattle foodservice operations
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- Trays,
- Bioplastics
Especially suited to those Seattle food retailers looking for compostable or recyclable packaging to replace banned polystyrene, Sealed Air Corp. offers a polylactic acid foam meat tray, now available with a PLA pad.
The Cryovac® 
NatureTRAY™ was introduced in 2007 and is made entirely from NatureWorks® PLA polymers. The tray can be used for in-store packaging of beef, pork, poultry, and fish, as well as for produce and dry goods, and can be used on any standard, automated in-store supermarket wrapping equipment.
Delivering the same benefits as traditional PS foam trays, the NatureTRAY is also compostable in any industrial compost facility. It is available in a range of sizes and in an unpigmented white and a brown color.
This year, Sealed Air announced the addition of a processor-ready version of the NatureTRAY, 
along with the new Cryovac NaturePAD. The NaturePAD is a hybrid absorbent with a biodegradable top layer, a renewable pulp fluff core, and a nonwoven bottom layer made of polypropylene and PLA polymers.
The NaturePAD is available in three absorbencies: 40 g, 75 g, and 150g. The processor version of the NatureTRAY is available in one standard size and color—an all-natural unpigmented white tray with a #3 footprint.
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