Ifco tray
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Ifco trays (an acronym for international fruit container) are containers developed in Germany in 1992 which are primarily used in retail to hold fruit and vegetables.[1][2] They are attractive for environmental reasons due to their ease of reuse, their capability of being stacked when full of produce in many different configurations and that they can be flattened when empty for compact return to producers/shippers/growers or for storage purposes. Their adoption has generated controversy between developed countries which are consumers of produce and developing countries which are producers, primarily due to the cost of using the trays as opposed to using locally produced containers.[3]
References
- ^ Fishbein, Bette K. (1994). Germany, Garbage, and the Green Dot: Challenging the Throwaway Society. Cincinnati, Ohio: Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. pp. 25–26.
- ^ "IFCO RPC Management Services". IFCO SYSTEMS, Germany. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- ^ Environmental Requirements and Market Access - Chapter 20. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 2005. pp. 270–274.
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