30 Oct 2009

Can You Call Tetra Pak Green?


When they do recycle Tetra Paks (which is rare, on their own website they admit that worldwide, only 18% of them are), what do they turn it into? In North America: toilet paper.

If you can get it recycled. Only 20% of America has access to recycling facilities for Tetra Pak, the rest goes into landfill.

And what is Tetra Pak recycling? There is no question, they are doing a lot of work here to get that paper separated from that foil and polyethylene.
Treehugger has an interesting article on Tetra Pak's read it here.

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