“I had the hardest time getting the
information I needed to write that paper.
Everything was proprietary, and no one
wanted to talk about it,” Slavin said.
“Though I was really focusing on the
thermoform industry and the problem of
its products not being readily recycled, I
also intended it as an analogy for a lot
of packaging materials, because a lot
of what people think is recycled is not.”
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