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Plastics packaging for milk reduces waste

Despite a 22% increase in milk consumption within the province of Ontario between 1968 and 1995, the amount of solid waste from milk packaging is down 20%.

That's according to the Environment and Plastics Industry Council (EPIC) of the Canadian Plastics Industry Assn.

EPIC's "The Evolution of Milk Packaging and the Effect on Solid Waste in Ontario" study pinpoints a reduction of nearly 3ꯠ tons of packaging waste, from 14꽖 to 11꾁 tons. The study attributes the drop to a shift to lighter and larger packaging sizes.

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