Rosnay Organic Wines has discontinued its use of plastic pallet wrap for local and global shipping, and moved to a Biogone landfill-biodegradable option instead.
The family farm and vineyard, which has been producing artisan fig, olive and wine organic products from the Canowindra region in New South Wales for the local and overseas market, says that the care taken to create its product range also translates to its choice of packing, shipping and delivery products.
According to Sam Statham, GM, Rosnay Organic Wines, using standard plastic wrap to protect and secure its products on the pallets was not a path the family business wanted to continue with.
“We were simply sick of all the plastic that was being used, and for us, we were struggling to find a sustainable solution, but then we discovered Biogone,” Staham said.
“As a small and successful business like ours, Biogone shares the same ethos of wanting to leave our planet in as good or better condition than when we came here.”
Local supplier Biogone offers many businesses landfill-biodegradable products for packaging, storage and containment, such as tapes, bubble wrap, strapping and pallet wraps.
Dr Ross Headifen, co-founder of Biogone, said, “We started Biogone as we are very concerned about the amount of plastic being used in the world and dumped after a relatively short time, but it will last hundreds of years somewhere. Most of it is single use, be it consumer goods or products for businesses.
“The packing industry is one that uses a lot of plastic to ship items around and more often than not, it is disposed of after one use. This leads to a large plastic waste accumulation problem that gets bigger every year. At Biogone we make our packing materials with a landfill-biodegradable plastic or in some cases for a limited range of products, a home-compostable plastic.
“We become very excited when companies like Rosnay join our journey to eliminate the use of conventional plastics for short lived applications. Rosnay have shown they understand they can make a great wine product yet there are environmental issues to ship it around in a plastic that will last hundreds of years.
“Using Biogone’s landfill-biodegradable stretch wrap, packing tape and document envelopes on their shipments, provides them the satisfaction of having more responsible operations in line with their overall all brand ethos.”
In September 2021, Biogone provided landfill-biodegradable packaging materials to Melbourne-based coffee beverage manufacturer Shotspresso.
Rosnay's Statham has three simple pieces of advice for other companies to embrace sound and doable sustainable practices.
“Firstly, what you do is more important than what you say. Secondly, be transparent and welcoming to your customers and thirdly, work with people who share your values.”
