Article on Packaging PVC Clamshells
Feb. 16, 2006: A recent article in Purchasing
Magazine reports on packaging PVC clamshells. In
the Feb. 16 article "The battle rages over
use of PVC clamshells", Microsoft attorney,
Joan Krajewski, "estimates its replacement
of PVC packaging with corrugated cardboard and
recyclable plastic packaging will remove more
than 800,000 lbs from landfills annually."
Jay Watts, senior manager of the Microsoft
package engineering management team, says
"as part of the project, we were able to
eliminate clamshells altogether-not just the PVC
but the clamshell itself-from 60-70% of our
packaging, so no substitution was needed at
all." Those clamshells made of plastic still
in use now are made of polyethylene terephthalate
(PET), he says, "and 25% of that resin is
recycled material."
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