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Packing peanuts: now business and eco-friendly

Have you ever opened a package and been showered with small foam-like, peanut-shaped objects? Most people usually don’t pay much attention to them anymore. Packing peanuts have been around nearly fifty years, having been first introduced by the Dow Chemical Company in the 1960’s. Traditional packing peanuts are made out of polystyrene. Unfortunately, polystyrene can [...]

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