The backgrounder discusses options for recycling or otherwise processing steel and plastic packaging to keep it out of landfills. It describes the recycling process for steel as it pertains to consumers and the steel paint cans they buy, and at the industrial level where steel paint drums are used.
Issue backgrounder
The National Paint and Coatings Assn., Inc. (Washington, DC) has released an issue backgrounder, Packaging Solutions and the Coatings Industry.
Apr 30, 1996
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