Lamb Weston’s Recyclable Paper Fry Bag – The New Option for the U.S. Foodservice Customers
Lamb Weston now offers U.S. foodservice customers the option to receive their frozen French fries in recyclable paper bags, according to a recent company LinkedIn announcement.
“Designed by our packaging engineers, these bags provide a grease and moisture barrier, durability, and seamless machinability—while staying eco-friendly,” the company’s representatives wrote.
The new package is the outcome of years of work by the packaging engineers to create a format that offers a more environmentally friendly end-of-life solution than the company’s polyethylene bags.
“This initiative was driven by our goal to develop packaging to be recycle-ready, reusable, or compostable to reduce our Scope 3 GHG emissions as well as use less water in the production of our packaging. We have previously offered paper bags for our products, but this redevelopment allows them to now be accepted in the paper recycling stream,” Michael Grandinetti, senior manager of packaging engineering for Lamb Weston, declared, cited by Packaging World.
Lamb Weston’s packaging innovation team conducted several experiments, including material property tests, dynamics tests, and real-world trials, to guarantee the material’s safety and quality before its application in a product.
Additionally, the new material was designed to work well with the company’s current machinery. When the paper bag was first presented in the summer of 2024, several of the company’s foodservice clients gave it excellent reviews, the Packaging World authors concluded.
