Piles and piles of plastic bottles, bags, Styrofoam, packaging material and other household trash can be seen as a permanent fixture.
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These included a trend for plastic bottles and packaging material being found.
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What a transformation for a company remembered among investors for its very cyclical profits and among environmentalists for things like their least-favorite packaging material, Styrofoam.
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What a transformation for a company that's remembered by investors for its very cyclical profits and by environmentalists for things like their least-favorite packaging material, Styrofoam.
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The researchers report in Biomacromolecules that their new material matches the stiffness, strength and compressibility of expanded polystyrene, a common packaging material that is the bane of many a rubbish dump.
When people ask me about what jobs are supported, well, the packaging material that my company uses, the transportation companies we use, the FedEx - companies - you know, the companies that move our product, the restaurants that use our product won't be able to get as much.
Now, almost 50% of McDonald's packaging is recycled material.
"We buy most of our products now from China and other countries, so perhaps it's not too surprising that to manufacture new products and packaging they need the material to go back there, " spokesman David Mansell said.
Both the iMac and Mac mini include PVC-free components and cables, contain no brominated flame retardants, and use highly recyclable materials and material-efficient packaging designs.
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Are there any banned non-recyclable material used in the packaging?
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Packaging: While ensuring that the functional requirements of packaging are not compromised, what proportion of the total material is reused, recycled and renewable?
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It is biodegradable, safe enough to be used as food packaging, can be processed like existing thermoplastics into coloured or transparent material and can be manufactured from renewable resources such as maize and sugarcane.
Recycling the scraps of material donated by clothing factories and sculpting plastic bottles donated by residents of the community into packaging, are not only environmentally friendly, but financially benefit to the company.
Considering cardboard is a sturdy enough material to be turned into a bike, the company attached instructions to its baby stroller packaging to enable parents to create homely items such as chairs, lamps and birdhouses.
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