Tehran 17 February _Iranian egg producers say they will remove the use of cardboard boxes from packaging to save around $20 million a year.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_Farzad Talakesh, a union representative of egg farmers in Iran, said on Monday that the industry is mulling plans to use special trucks for transportation of eggs to the shops that would render useless the cardboard boxes that have served packaging for many years.
Talakesh said the egg farming industry consumes some 83 million metric tons of cardboard each year, the highest among all industries in Iran.
He said the plan would save egg-laying farms across the country around $50,000 a day while it would result in less import into Iran of cardboard rolls.
Iranian egg producers normally use large cardboard boxes to package the nostalgic trays of 30 or 20 that are on offer for final delivery to the customers.