Bringing paper packaging out of the woods

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Statistics suggest that the average European wastes 180kg per year and over three billion trees are lost to paper packaging across the world. Juan F. Samaniego, freelance science journalist and editor for environmental newsletter Planeta Mauna Loa, takes us through manufacturers’ attempts to overcome these figures by producing paper from grass, hemp fibres, and recycled clothing.

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