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Sustainable Packaging – It Can Be So Degrading, or Not

by Dennis Salazar | Apr 7, 2009 | Sustainable Perspective

Whether you are talking about composting, oxo-degradability or biodegradability, the options are numerous, the facts confusing and the claims are very often downright misleading. The cartoon shown is appearing in the April issue of Packaging World magazine and it...

Sustainability Is in the Eye of the Beholder

by Dennis Salazar | Nov 25, 2008 | Sustainable Products

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I really wish that was not the case but it is. I have written and spoken on this topic numerous times but a recent reader response on this blog from Neil Hunter in the UK has motivated me to address it once again. I think we all hope...

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