Video: Recyclable seafood box trial a success

Global Green USA's Coalition for Resource Recovery carries out a pilot project to tackle this challenge in New Orleans: Can recyclable boxes be used to ship seafood?

Anne Marie Mohan

Apr 24, 2014

On Earth Day, The Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR), a project of Global Green USA, released the completed video of its first recyclable seafood box test, whiciit undertook in conjunction with the New Orleans Fish House. The video captures the pilot process and results—fresh seafood was packed in New Orleans and trucked up to several delivery points in Baton Rouge, arriving intact and looking great.

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