Dart uses safe and efficient processes to make our products:
Dart values the health and safety of customers, employees, and consumers. We take pride in safely and efficiently providing high-quality food and beverage packaging solutions. The following materials have been used to safely make Dart products for years, and have been deemed safe for food and beverage use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These materials do not contain Bisphenol A (BPA), dioxins, or plasticizers.
Dart uses UV inks on our products because they adhere to surfaces smoothly and evenly, and also contain no volatile organic compounds or heavy metals. Additionally, Dart does not make any products containing latex and latex gloves are not used in any Dart manufacturing plants.
CFCs are known to harm Earth’s atmosphere and ozone layer and were banned from use in the U.S. in 1996. Dart has never used CFCs to make our products. Pentane, the blowing agent used to create Dart’s PS foam products, has no known effect on the ozone layer.
Styrene is often confused with polystyrene, but they are fundamentally different. Styrene is a liquid, and polystyrene is solid plastic made from polymerized styrene. A naturally occurring substance, styrene is in many foods and drinks, including wheat, beef, strawberries, peanuts, and coffee beans. Also found in cinnamon, styrene has a chemical structure similar to cinnamic aldehyde, the chemical component that gives cinnamon its flavor.
In production, styrene is derived from petroleum and natural gas. The clear, colourless liquid helps create thousands of remarkably strong, flexible, and light-weight products for home, school, work, and play. It’s used in everything from food containers and packaging materials to cars, boats, video games, and computers. Styrene is even found in medical, health, and safety equipment.