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Link: Paper, paper, everywhere, and not a scrap to waste

(Canada, Feb, 24, 2017) Every Tuesday night I come face-to-face with the twin issues of consumption and “sustainable materials management” or the latest buzzword favoured by governments, the “circular economy,” writes John Mullinder of The Paper & Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC). “For Tuesday night is Recycling Night.”
Household paper that shouldn’t be in the garbage
(the 26% that doesn’t make it to the Blue Box)


To read complete report Go To: “Paper, paper, everywhere, and not a scrap to waste” (Source: Knowridge Science Report)
Cover Image courtesy Knowridge Science Report

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