Biobased and Compostable Solution for your Snacks

Snack food is one of North America’s most consumed — and most packaged — categories. Chip bags are everywhere,and so is the growing awareness of where they end up. Consumers, retailers, and legislators alike are pushing brands to offer a credible answer to the single-use flexible packaging problem, and the pressure is no longer coming from the fringes.​

Composting is gaining real traction as a practical end-of-life pathway in the North American market. For brands that want to get ahead of regulation and meet consumers where their values already are, the window to act with a genuinely differentiated, compostable packaging solution is now.

Challenge

The snack industry has struggled to offer a compostable packaging solution that holds up in the real world. Industrial compostable films require access to certified composting facilities — infrastructure that remains limited and inconsistent across North America, meaning the end-of-life claim printed on the bag rarely reflects what actually happens to it.​

Home compostability is the meaningful alternative but it demands a print web film that can anchor a fully compostable laminate structure while processing reliably on packaging lines. Printability, ink adhesion, machinability, and humidity resistance all need to be there. Until now, finding a biobased film that checks every one of those boxes has been the missing piece.

Solution

Taghleef Industries addresses that gap with NATIVIA® Plus D822 — a biaxially oriented print web film based on PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate), a biopolymer synthesised through bacterial fermentation from renewable feedstocks. Uniquely among biopolymers, PHA is biodegradable across all environments: compost, soil, marine, and fresh water.​

​As the outer print layer in a home-compostable chip bag structure, NATIVIA® Plus D822 can be laminated with other compostable films and paper to build packaging that is genuinely end-of-life friendly.

Benefit

• Designed for Home Compostability

Growing interest in compostability as an end-of-life option in North America is where NATIVIA® Plus D822 comes in. It is designed for home compostability – no drop-off, no specialist handling, no gap between what the pack promises and what disposal actually delivers.

• Bio alternative

NATIVIA® Plus D822 is made from PHA — a biopolymer produced through the natural fermentation of renewable feedstocks by bacteria, with no fossil-derived raw materials involved. For brands replacing conventional plastic with a material that is genuinely biobased from origin to end of life, this is the foundation that makes the claim credible.​

• Packaging Performance

NATIVIA® Plus D822 is engineered for real converting environments. Its treated side delivers enhanced receptivity to inks and adhesives for clean flexographic printing, while reduced sensitivity to humidity ensures consistent behaviour on the packaging line — good contact clarity and good mechanical properties make it a practical choice, not just a principled one.