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Article: Bag makers to start sustainability project; Program already has enough firms lined up to launch.(News)
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- Plastics News
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- September 28, 2009
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Byline: Roger Renstrom
In an effort to boost environmental sustainability, several plastic bag manufacturers are pursuing proactive, self-policing steps toward green packaging.
Joseph Greene, a Chico, Calif., plastics industry consultant and research academian, heads nonprofit company Sustainable Green Products Inc., which was formed at the request of the bag manufacturers.
The firm's program for sustainable packaging succeeds the "environmentally preferred rating program, known as EPR, that has been in existence since 2005. The company filed incorporation papers May 19 with the state of California.
Greene believes plastic bag makers ...