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About Packaging Recycling

Packaging is an essential part of our everyday lives. Packaging helps to protect the integrity of foods and products in the transport from the manufacturer to the retailer and finally to the consumer. Without packaging the level of damaged and wasted products would greatly increase, which could have a far more significant environmental impact than the use of packaging, especially when a reasonable proportion of packaging material can be widely recycled. But it is important that only the right amount of packaging is used, and it would be unwise to reduce a product's packaging, only to find that it has to be overly packaged to protect it during transportation to retail outlets.

Packaging can also:

• Extend the shelf-life of fruit and vegetables
• Minimise breakages
• Safeguard public health
• Provide important product information to consumers.

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