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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s 2016 The New Plastic Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics report, 40 years after the launch of a well-known recycling symbol, only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling. In oxygen-poor environments, the material will break down into the potent greenhouse gas, methane.