date:Dec 24, 2012
Recent years have seen several advances in food packaging, from incorporating FSC certified paper to making it compostable. While commendable, many of these innovative packages still end up in the landfill where they may sit for hundreds of years. Compostables only break down if consumers or restaurants take the extra steps to separately sort them from the waste stream into the compost bin, and thats if local composting facilities even exist.
While this week your mind may be on holiday gift wr