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Seafood packaging

Replacing foam: Better for bottom line, better for the planet

Foam containers are non-biodegradable; they end up in landfills and the ocean. Reduce your environmental footprint with reusable plastic seafood shipping containers without sacrificing product protection. 

A woman holds a plate of seafood while eating as she overlooks the seashore from atop a mountain ridge.

Circularity and savings
with reusable plastic containers (RPCs)

Before ESP insulated foam salmon storage containers are stacked in garbage cans.
After The Tosca Superior Hybrid bin is stacked in threes and unfolded. Ship more fresh seafood with these reusable bulk seafood shipping boxes.
Sustainability

Sustainable

100% of foam waste is diverted from landfills.
Ventilization

Ventilated

For faster freezing and maintaining the cold chain.
Standardized

Standard sizing

Automation-ready, stable stacks, better storage, and improved backroom organization.
transportation saving

Transportation savings

Stacking the crates higher and better cube utilization leads to 25% fuller trucks.
Packaging Saving

Packaging savings

RPCs are about one-third of the price of foam.
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Durable and reusable

Foam is single-use, whereas reusable crates make hundreds of turns in the supply chain.
savings

Eliminate cost

Of foam disposal and packaging materials.

Efficient and sustainable bulk plastic bins

Before Meat in bulk container cardboard boxes requires straps to help reduce bulging and the potential for rupture at the glue joints.
After The Tosca Superior Hybrid bin is stacked in threes and unfolded. Ship more fresh seafood with these reusable bulk seafood shipping boxes.
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Reusable solutions

Ship all your seafood products (shellfish and finfish).
Higher Stacks

Double the stack for storage

Reduces floor space.
transportation saving

Lower transport cost for empties

182 folded RPCs on a truck vs. 26 rigid IBCs.
Bulk Bin

Pallet all-in-one combo

Huge cost savings and eliminates the need for wood pallets and additional packaging.
Reduced CO2 emissions

Lower C02 emissions

Maximize return transport capacity, reducing the number of trips needed.

Real results: Impact of seafood containers

Get inspired by customer journeys that transformed their business.

Wegmans logo
“We have been looking for a way out of EPS for a while and thanks to Tosca’s new seafood RPCs, we have improved our approach to sustainability. It isn’t every day that you get to make a sustainability change that doubles as a cost-saving change as well.”
- Jason Wadsworth
Wegmans’ Category Merchant, Packaging and Sustainability.
JJ McDonnell & Co
“Using reusable plastic crates in place of polystyrene is a win-win-win. There is a cost savings for everyone involved in the program and we have a hand in helping the environment. Sustainability is an important initiative for JJ McDonnell, making the collaboration with a company like Tosca that inherently supports that vision so easy. To date we have eliminated over 250,000 Styrofoam containers by replacing them with the totes since launching the partnership 21 months ago, and we expect this number to grow exponentially as we expand the program.”
- George McManus
CEO, JJ McDonnell & Co.
Fish and seafood panoramic top shot. Sea bream, crab, sardines, scallops, shrimps on a white background

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