Project Overview

Liviri Fresh is a food protecting, reusable shipping container that prioritises people and the planet.

Organisation

Liviri Solutions

Project Context

The cardboard box hails from the days of the stagecoach. More than a century later the e-delivery marketplace is booming, and packages are zooming, yet the container remains unchanged; emptied, flattened, and filling up landfills.

Until now.

Project Innovation

Liviri Fresh is a durable, insulated, reusable shipping container sized perfectly for meal kits and perishables like meat, seafood, produce, juices and more.

Internal testing, beyond “extreme” industry standards, proved Liviri Fresh provides over 80 percent better insulation performance than the leading single-use packaging – corrugated cardboard with 1.5 inches of denim insulation. Foods stay in the safe temperature zone longer, ensuring fewer returns and cancelled orders.

Additionally, thermal test results showed that Liviri Fresh consistently kept meal-kit shipments in temperature range 82% longer than 1.5” recycled denim, and 142% longer than 1.5” biodegradable corn starch (using ice packs as coolant).

Coolant reduction was also measured (both ice packs and dry ice) over time. Liviri Fresh required 45-50% less coolant, which is noteworthy because it saves space in the box, it reduces the cost of the coolant, especially dry ice which is expensive, and it lowers the overall weight and waste.

After a shipment is received, consumers simply take their perishables out of the box, close the lid and attach the included return shipping label for pickup and return via FedEx or another shipping service. Liviri Fresh is delivered to a sanitation facility to be cleaned up and readied for its next journey, and the cycle begins again.

Sustainability

According to a 2015 Environmental Protection Agency study, food, packaging and containers equalled 45% of U.S. landfills.

Liviri Fresh can be reused up to 75 times, lessening the recycling burden at home and eliminating a significant source of single-use corrugated cardboard and denim insulation, which clogs up said landfills.