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Fact and fiction in the fight to deliver your fruit and veggies

1 Comment / Recyclable / By John Mullinder

Most consumers don’t see this but there’s an intense battle going on right now in North America for the job of delivering food from the farm to the retailers who sell it to you. An old ding-dong fight between the traditional corrugated box with its colourful graphics showing who grew the produce, and the anonymous […]

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Industry well on the way to solving the waxed box issue

Although relatively few corrugated boxes have wax applied to them (about 3% of all corrugated produced), they have long been a “problem” material when it comes to recycling. Those days may be numbered. Wax coatings have traditionally been applied as a moisture barrier to preserve the strength of a box holding wet or iced products