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If you live in the Pacific Northwest and shop at one of the 11 Wild Oats grocery stores in the region, you may be buying your food in corntainers. No, that's not a typo: This month, Wild Oats Markets became the first food store chain in the country to use environmentally friendly packaging made of corn. Most traditional food packaging is made from petroleum products; the corntainer is fossil-fuel-free (except for shipping and production processes, of course) and can be thrown in the compost right along with the leftovers of your portabello-and-sundried-tomato sandwich. Alternatively, consumers can return the packaging to Wild Oats stores, where they are subsequently recycled into organic soil by an Oregon company. The company says people love the corntainer, and it plans to begin using them at 77 stores nationwide by the fall.
From CNN. Link thanks to Grist Magazine.
:: Deb 3:16 PM :: permalink ::
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