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If a tree falls in a forest...

Anne Marie Mohan
Oct 12, 2010
Thomas Oris
Procurement Manager,
Morton Salt, Packager

Oris asks, “If a package is compostable and most [consumers] do not compost it, is it really compostable?” Ditto for recycling: If the infrastructure does not exist for a consumer to recycle a package, is that package really recyclable? greenerpackage.com/node/3005

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