Compostability of Bioplastic Packaging M
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Gaurav Kale; Thitisilp Kijchavengkul; Rafael Auras; Maria Rubino; Susan E. Selke
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Packaging waste accounted for 78.81 million tons or 31.6% of the total municipal solid waste (MSW) in 2003 in the USA, 56.3 million tons or 25% of the MSW in 2005 in Europe, and 3.3 million tons or 10% of the MSW in 2004 in Australia. Currently, in the USA the dominant method of packagi