The different components of a retail pack should ideally have the same recycling route to help consumer understanding, according to the Green Alliance.
Its Applications for Compostable Packaging guidance, launched today (28 November), is designed to help assess whether food packaging is the most appropriate application for compostable materials.
Policy advisor Hannah Hislop said packaging should not "constantly change between formats such as compostable and recyclable".
She added that there was the potential to develop the guidelines for non-food packaging and other materials.
The Green Alliance also called for all food packaging to be recyclable or compostable by 2013.
Despite the great interest in biopolymers from retailers and brands, the Green Alliance claimed there was a lack of awareness of the problems they could cause for consumers, local authority collections and reprocessing plants.
Source: packagingnews
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