{"id":83,"date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2024-06-25T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:28:45","slug":"podcast-compostable-popcorn-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST | Compostable Popcorn Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\"\/><link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\"\/><link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Lato:ital,wght@0,700;1,300&amp;display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/><link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/ext\/resources\/css\/PS-articles.css\"\/>\n<style><![CDATA[<![CDATA[\n\t.pod {\n\t\twidth: 97%; background-color: #1C4974; border-radius: 25px; padding: 20px; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; margin: 0px auto;\n\t}\n\t\n\t.listenBtn {\n\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t}\n\t\/* unvisited link *\/\n\t\n\t.listenBtn a:link {\n\t\tcolor: #fff; padding: 7px 20px; background-color: #1C4974; border-radius: 25px; text-decoration: none; border: none; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease; -moz-transition: all 0.5s ease; -o-transition: all 0.5s ease; -ms-transition: all 0.5s ease; transition: all 0.5s ease; box-shadow: 10px 10px 10px grey;\n\t}\n\t\/* visited link *\/\n\t\n\t.listenBtn a:visited {\n\t\tcolor: #fff; background-color: #1C4974;\n\t}\n\t\/* mouse over link *\/\n\t\n\t.listenBtn a:hover {\n\t\tcolor: #f4f5f6; background-color: #404144; border: none; padding: 11px 80px; font-size: 23px; -webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease; -moz-transition: all 0.5s ease; -o-transition: all 0.5s ease; -ms-transition: all 0.5s ease; transition: all 0.5s ease;\n\t}\n\t\/* selected link *\/\n\t\n\t.listenBtn a:active {\n\t\tcolor: #fff; background-color: #1C4974;\n\t}\n\n]]]]><![CDATA[>]]><\/style>\n<p><em>Packaging Strategies<\/em> Multimedia Specialist <strong>Brett Parker<\/strong> sits down with <strong>Joseph Zeppilli<\/strong>, Co-Founder of Bad Monkey Popcorn, as they discuss the company&#8217;s move toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/keywords\/3887-compostable-packaging\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">compostable packaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Bad Monkey Popcorn is a snack company known for award-winning innovation in the realm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/topics\/2678-sustainable-packaging\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sustainable packaging<\/a>. They&#8217;re noted for their &#8220;Heat &#8216;N Eat&#8221; Packaging, which is the world&#8217;s first heatable bag of pre-popped popcorn. \u00a0They continue to innovate on the packaging front by making bags from wood fiber that are 100% compostable.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Zeppilli discusses the company&#8217;s move to compostable packaging, his thoughts on industrial compostable versus backyard compostable, the markets where they&#8217;ve rolled out their product, and if they plan on more packaging innovations in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So all we had to do was put the compostability and heatability together and put our popcorn in,&#8221; Zeppilli notes, &#8220;and we noticed not only does it make it hot but it makes it crunchy and it lasts long. We can keep it in a warmer, depending on the temperature, for up to eight hours at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full podcast interview below to learn more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"listen\"\/><\/p>\n<aside style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/media\/podcasts\/3067\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<audio controls=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/ext\/resources\/podcasts\/BAD-MONKEY-POPCORN-INTERVIEW_mixdown.mp3?1719331568\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/source><\/audio>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/media\/podcasts\/3067\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Listen to more podcasts here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/articles\/104793-podcast-compostable-popcorn-packaging\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packaging Strategies Multimedia Specialist Brett Parker sits down with Joseph Zeppilli, Co-Founder of Bad Monkey Popcorn, as they discuss the company&#8217;s move toward compostable packaging. Bad Monkey Popcorn is a snack company known for award-winning innovation in the realm of sustainable packaging. They&#8217;re noted for their &#8220;Heat &#8216;N Eat&#8221; Packaging, which is the world&#8217;s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[52,53,51,54],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-compostable-packaging","tag-compostable-packaging-materials","tag-snack-food-packaging-trends","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}