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Jan 4, 2011
Thomas Oris
Procurement Manager,
Morton Salt
Packager

Breaking the ‘sustainability taboo’ Oris admits he is not won over by the use of corn-based polylactic acid for packaging. “As much as I don’t like the current state of packaging, with little emphasis on the environment, I just don’t view PLA is a viable, sound direction going forward,” he writes. greenerpackage.com/node/3218

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