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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. This is due to consumers not disposing of the biodegradable packaging appropriately.

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Which countries are responsible for all that ocean plastic?

Grist

In 2016, the U.S. Using 2016 municipal solid waste data from the World Bank — the most recent available — Mallos and his colleagues attempted to refine some of the calculations made in the 2015 paper. But new research tells a different story. To Mallos, that seemed a little too optimistic.

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