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sustainable and disposable may be mutually exclusive

Perhaps the bottom line is that manufactured disposable products and packaging will never be sustainable.

With growing population and dwindling resources it may be time for society to ditch disposable and move to reusable design.

Posted by Two Hands Project
24 April 2012 | 22h51

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