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AMERIPEN starts to shift on recycling policy
A packaging industry group that has traditionally opposed mandated producer funding of recycling may be ready to support that type of legislation, according to the organization’s leader. Dan Felton, executive director of packaging stakeholder group AMERIPEN, said his organization’s recycling-policy …