Japanese companies cutting down on product packaging
Mainichi reports that rising raw material prices have led several Japanese companies to cut down on their use of plastic wrap and foam trays.
FamilyMart is one of the companies mentioned:
Convenience store chain FamilyMart is changing the way it packages about 70 percent of its lunch boxes. Although the entire box used to be covered in plastic wrap, the company is planning to now only cover the area where the box meets the lid, a move that could reduce the amount of plastic wrap used by about 60 percent.
The new packaging has already been introduced on a trial basis at all FamilyMart stores in Yamanashi and Nagano prefectures, and is likely to be adopted at more stores from next year. FamilyMart hopes to save several tens of millions yen annually, through this new packaging system.
FamilyMart and the other companies making such moves are advertising their cost-saving decisions as an eco-friendly decisions.
