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In the fall of 2011 Planters began switching its dry roasted peanut products to new PET plastic packaging.
Planters Dry roasted peanuts were sold in glass bottles. The move reduces overall packaging weight by 84% according to the company. Planters also said the change will reduce product transportation by 25%.
The new Planters packaging is now showing up across the country.
As of today eighteen restaurants in London's SoHo have signed on to a campaign dubbed Straw Wars aimed at reducing the use of plastic straws.
Restaurants participating are not discontinuing the use of plastic straws rather they are only providing them to customers at request.
The group cites evidence that millions of plastic straws end up in water supplies or in the ocean after being discarded. Many of these straws are then ingested by mammals or other marine life.
Read more in a piece via the Guardian
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