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minus-squareJovialMicrobial@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI wonder why we shifted away from things like waxed paper milk cartons(like the small ones you’d get in school) and waxed butcher paper? Is waxed paper/cardboard product really that much more expensive than plastic in terms of packaging?
minus-squarericdeh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoHere in Germany, all milk is still distributed in cardboard packages
minus-squareSidyctism@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoYeah, but the inner lining of tetrapacks is plastic
I wonder why we shifted away from things like waxed paper milk cartons(like the small ones you’d get in school) and waxed butcher paper?
Is waxed paper/cardboard product really that much more expensive than plastic in terms of packaging?
Here in Germany, all milk is still distributed in cardboard packages
Yeah, but the inner lining of tetrapacks is plastic