Environmental Woes of “First Taste Waste”

Published: 6 August 2010

Category: Packaging CONCERNS, Recycling, Sustainability

Earth911.com reports on the environmental issues with “first taste waste,” the business behind free food samples. These single-use food samples amount to a huge amount of waste. Earth911.com urges consumers to consider this the next time you are getting free samples: the U.S. manufactures 40 billion plastic utensils each year.

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