Dogwood Alliance

Here's an excerpt from the article about packaging waste...

"Packaging is a huge expense in our culture. When you check out at the grocery store, $1 out of every $11 is for the packaging that you will have to discard when you get home. Most of our groceries get packed into plastic bags that have a life span of 450 years in landfills, but we will only use them for an average of 25 minutes. More than one third — 32 percent — of all our municipal waste is from packaging alone! By "pre-cycling," which means buying the item with the least packaging, you are saving a lot of our natural resources."

And about paper...

"Paper is a huge expense in terms of money and natural resources, and most of it becomes waste. To make one ton of virgin paper, we must cut down almost 4 acres of forest, or at least 17 mature trees. A 3-foot stack of newspapers weighs about 100 pounds, and is equal to one tree that was about 30 feet tall before it became paper."

To read the rest of the article, click here.

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