TAR HEEL — Smithfield Foods, which operates the world’s largest pork production facility here, is exploring strategic packaging and plastic-use reduction options.

The company wants to have 90 percent of its consumer packaging recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable by 2030, and to halve use of virgin petroleum-based plastic.

The company already has a plan to reduce overall solid waste sent to landfills 75 percent by 2025, using or recycling materials disposed of as garbage.

Smithfield is a member of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition