“What is the point of going to all the trouble of creating natural and organic foods and products if we harm the environment to bring them to market?”
156,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be avoided (equivalent to 27,000 cars driven 200 miles a week).
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As I shop at my local Whole Foods in River Forest, I notice “all natural” and “organic” products are sold in SBS packaging. Actually quite a few brands. What is the point of going to all the trouble of creating natural and organic foods and products if we harm the environment to bring them to market? How much greater of an impact can these companies make on the environment if they just changed their paperboard packaging type? How much greater of an impact can the consumer make by contacting each of these companies and telling them to change or by not buying their product? How much greater of an impact can the retailer make by requiring their suppliers to change the packaging or they won’t carry it in their stores?
In addition to paperboard packaging, note that corn-based plastic is made from genetically modified corn and it is not determined safe to recycle. Also, those Tetra Pak containers? Do you see a recycling symbol on them?
First of all I applaud the efforts of [Conrad] Worrill and [Elzie] Higginbottom.
So the current CPS administration has the unenviable task of trying to sponsor more sports programs in schools that were never designed to hold those sports. So there is a lot of refixing that needs to be done.
I’m Sergi Jordà, from the Reactable team in Barcelona.
