{"id":5525,"date":"2011-03-09T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2011-03-14T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T11:13:39","slug":"coke-colgate-dupont-and-others-form-environmental-packaging-lobby-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/03\/09\/coke-colgate-dupont-and-others-form-environmental-packaging-lobby-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Coke, Colgate, DuPont and Others Form Environmental Packaging Lobby Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2011\/03\/09\/coke-colgate-dupont-and-others-form-environmental-packaging-lobby-group\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5528\" title=\"110314_pack\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/110314_pack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Dow Chemical and Kellogg\u2019s are  among the major U.S. corporations that have created a trade organization  to represent the packaging industry and coordinate the sector\u2019s  environmental efforts. The American Institution for Packaging and the Environment (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameripen.org\/index.html\">Ameripen<\/a>)  will advocate on public policy relating to packaging and the  environment. It will collaborate with trade associations, academic  institutions,  non-profits and government agencies to facilitate  relevant research and  data collection. Founders also include ConAgra Foods, MeadWestvaco, Sealed Air  Corporation and Tetra Pak. Membership is open to raw material producers,  packaging suppliers, packaging converters, waste haulers, recyclers,  and packaged goods manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The  group\u2019s first annual meeting is due to be held June 22. <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwp.medtronic.com\/Newsroom\/NewsReleaseDetails.do?itemId=1299098193173&amp;lang=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: The Coca Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, ConAgra Foods, The Dow Chemical Co., DuPont Packaging &amp; Industrial Polymers, Kellogg Company, MeadWestvaco, Procter &amp; Gamble, Sealed Air Corporation, Tetra Pak, Inc. | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2011\/03\/09\/coke-colgate-dupont-and-others-form-environmental-packaging-lobby-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Leader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Dow Chemical and Kellogg\u2019s are among the major U.S. corporations that have created a trade organization to represent the packaging industry and coordinate the sector\u2019s environmental efforts. The American Institution for Packaging and the Environment (Ameripen) will advocate on public policy relating to packaging and the environment. It will collaborate with trade&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,378,675,156,108,60,74,676],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-coca-cola-co","tag-colgate-palmolive","tag-conagra","tag-dow-chemical","tag-dupont","tag-kellogg","tag-pg","tag-tetra-pak","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}