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ACC Plastics Division Trains Wal-Mart Buyers and Suppliers on Plastics
At Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Fair (April 15-16, 2008), ACC Plastics Division and members provided three one-hour training sessions on plastic packaging sustainability. The first, session titled Plastics 101, was delivered by Keith Christman. The second, on different plastic forms, was led by Charlene Wall of BASF and the third, by Jeff Wooster of Dow Chemical, was on bioplastics. The sessions highlighted how plastics are commonly used to reduce package weight thereby reducing environmental impact. The presentations used both Life Cycle Assessment and Wal-Mart’s packaging scorecard to show how plastic packaging reduces environmental impacts compared to alternatives.  Please contact Keith Christman for more information.