The Scandinavian dairy cooperative yoghurt packaging and making over 40 million products more sustainable in 2019 due to consumer demand. ##s will introduce a renewable form of wood - based plastic for its milk , cheese and cooking cartons . The packaging is developed by Elopak using a new coating product called BioVerno naphtha which uses tall oil , a by - product from the production of wood pulp . The wood - based plastic is developed by Finnish forest - based bioindustry firm UPM and the material will help the company to reduce its carbon footprint by around a fifth .
The Scandinavian dairy cooperative ##s will introduce a renewable form of wood - based plastic for its milk , cheese and cooking cartons . The packaging is developed by Elopak using a new coating product called BioVerno naphtha which uses tall oil , a by - product from the production of wood pulp . The wood - based plastic is developed by Finnish forest - based bioindustry firm UPM and the material will help the company to reduce its carbon footprint by around a fifth .