Pulp
With the plastics industry in the dock for its disastrous impacts on nature, communities and health, the pulp and paper sector may be set to boom. Of course, not all plastics can be substituted by wood and paper pulp derived packaging, but a lot can. One example is the new partnership between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and the Paper Bottle Company (Paboco), which will launch paper bottles on the European market in 2022. In the case of detergents, the bottles will still have a plastic (recycled PET) inner bag and top, but the switch will cut plastic by 30%.
— Wayne Visser
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