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We Need More Sustainable Packaging, Like, Yesterday

Stuff You Should Know

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The Glad Bag

In 1985, there was a conference of the Society of Plastic Engineers. And someone stood up on a stage and said, hey, these things are $24 per thousand. They were really slow to catch on those plastic bags. In 1986, they got their hands on the LA Times and said,Hey, make sure you tell everybody that we've concluded plastic bags can be reused in more than 17 different ways. You can sacrifice a child with them. Right.

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