From cracking the story behind the carton to examining its pop culture impact, Egg Week features a scramble of everything you ever wanted to know about our nation’s favourite breakfast food — in all its forms. Is there a more humbly immaculate commercial packaging object than the plain pulp egg carton? The pulp then pours into moulds that shapes into egg carton form, at which point it is dyed, baked in a massive oven, and finally smoothed out and stamped with the relevant egg brand’s corporate insignias. Each completed egg carton can be re-pulped and recycled another 25 times. Today, most of Canada’s abundant egg carton supply is furnished by the Canadian Keyes Fibre Company Limited out of their manufacturing plant in Langley, British Columbia.

Source: National Post March 28, 2018 17:09 UTC