Modern Milkman rolls out Treetop Biopak’s home‑compostable bag

Modern Milkman has become the first UK business to introduce Treetop Biopak’s fully home‑compostable bread bag, marking a significant packaging shift for its nationwide bakery offer and strengthening its mission to help households cut plastic waste.

The British scale‑up, which has revived the traditional milk round with a modern, sustainable twist, is rolling out the new packaging across its freshly baked bread range, including loaves from partner bakery Bread of Life and a wider network of local bakeries. The switch comes at no extra cost to customers and forms part of a nationwide rollout already underway.

Made from a single‑layer compostable film, the new bags naturally break down in around 12 months without leaving microplastics or pollutants behind — a stark contrast to conventional plastic bread bags, which can take up to 450 years to degrade. The material is waterproof to maintain freshness and can be disposed of in household food waste bins, added to garden compost heaps or reused as an organic waste liner.

Jenny Thomason, head of commercial at Modern Milkman UK, said the launch follows years of development work. “The search for a solution that protects the quality of our bakery on the doorstep in an eco‑friendly way has taken years – so we’re really excited to launch this to our customers. We’re incredibly proud of this move, bringing us one step closer to our mission of ensuring that with the products we deliver absolutely nothing goes to waste.”

Amir Goss, CEO of Treetop Biopak, added: “We are delighted that the strengths of our compostable solutions have been recognised and adopted by a proactively environmentally responsible operation such as Modern Milkman. Performance strength was as fundamental as compostability in the decision to create this circular packaging approach.”

With an estimated 11–12 million loaves of bread sold in the UK every day, the move represents a meaningful step towards reducing the volume of single‑use plastic bread bags that typically end up in landfill or incineration.