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product protection, shelf life and consumer usability, and improve how paper-based materials perform on manufac- turing lines. Joint research and development efforts will help devel- op and scale promising innovations faster and at a low- er cost, getting new options to consumers sooner. While helping to accelerate the availability of solutions, mem- bers will continue to adopt their own strategies and make decisions related to their own packaging independently. “Responsible paper-based flexible packaging solu- tions don’t yet exist at the performance, scale and cost re- quired,” said Sander Defruyt, Strategy Lead for Plastics at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. “This consortium signals
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