Bio Degradable Consumer Packaging

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Bio-Degradable Consumer Packaging J & L Marketing, Inc Judith Opager (310) 850-3356 [email protected] . Richard Allen (714) 357-1362 [email protected]

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I compiled this PowerPoint presentation to help the sales representatives for this account have a major marketing strategy when it came to selling biodegradable goods instead of Styrofoam products. With some extensive research, I was able to put together a slideshow of how Styrofoam really affects the environment, new legislation banning Styrofoam, and what our better alternative product was made from.

Transcript of Bio Degradable Consumer Packaging

2. Environmental Stewardship is Everyones Responsibility
Expandable Polystyrene (EPS) products are designed to be disposable and, therefore, have a useful life of only minutes or hours. Yet, it takes several decades to hundreds of years for EPS to deteriorate in the environment or landfill. The EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) claims that the foam coffee cups so many of us use daily will still be sitting in landfills five hundred years from now.
3. The next 20 generations will see your morning EPS coffee cup . . .

  • EPS contributes to white pollution as litter, especially due to its lightweight nature:

4. it floats on water 5. is easily blown by the wind from place to place even when disposed of properly. 6. it merely breaks down into smaller pieces that litter the landscape. 7. is a major component in the overall make up of beach and marine debris 8. marine and land wildlife often perish as a result of ingesting EPS products mistaken as food. Plastics kill more than 1 million seabirds, 100,000
marine mammals, and even more fish in the North Pacific alone, every year

  • EPS is currently non-recyclable (in California)

9. EPS is non-biodegradable (unable to decay into constituent substances) 10. Because of the physical nature of EPS(i.e., floatability, breakability, large surface area), scientists are beginning to speculate about the role of EPS waste in contributing to other persistent non-visible water pollution problems, such as bacterial indicators. 11. There is currently no meaningful recycling of food service EPS products, due in part to contamination from food residue.