February 2, 2009 at 5:00 am by Luanne Bradley
Whole Foods Teams with New 'Gimme 5' Recycling Program
Did you know most yogurt and cottage cheese containers and other polypropylene #5 plastics end up in landfills? The plastic made from our chemical industries cannot be recycled and yet this is the material selected to package so much of our food items (think hummus and ice cream), medicine and restaurant take-out boxes.
A new effort to salvage and reuse the containers has been announced by the company, Preserve, which is creating stylish household products out of 100% recycled plastics.
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