Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Healthy chips in a healthy bag

SunChips has launched a campaign to promote their new bag made by plants so it's fully compostable. Every 10 ½ oz. SunChips package is designed to fully break down in just 14 weeks when placed in a hot, active compost bin or pile.

The newer bags are louder than the previous bags SunChips made. The new plant-based materials used have different sound properties that makes the bags a little louder.

SunChips has also started using solar energy in their plant in Modesto, California. This process eliminates the use of fossil fuels. The Modesto plant is the only plant out of eight that uses solar energy.

Solar collectors track the sun from morning to night capturing as much energy as they can. Then the energy is transferred into heat, which helps SunChips produce 145,000 bags of chips every day.

Learn more about SunChips.

4 comments:

Andrew Waldrup said...

Guess they'll be even more expensive now.

Hannah Albrecht said...

Sun Chips using the sun. Go figure.

SunChips said...

Thanks for your enthusiasm for the new SunChips compostable bag! We’re trying to spread the word, so please visit www.sunchips.com to learn more, and become a fan of SunChips on Facebook.

Angela said...

I don't particularly like Sun Chips, but this is a really neat idea that I hope spreads to other companies.