State lawmakers last spring voted to reverse Maine's four-year-old ban on juice

Source

Portland Press Herald

Date

9-1-1994

Pages

1A, 18A

Abstract

State lawmakers last spring voted to reverse Maine's four-year-old ban on juice boxes, known as aseptic packaging in the grocery industry, and the boxes will reappear on Maine's grocery store shelves today. In agreeing to overturn the ban, lawmakers required industry to help local communities set up recycling programs for the boxes, and to file a recycling progress report for each of the next three years. The discarded juice boxes, rinsed and compacted into bales, are worth $80 per ton to a New York paper mill that separates the paper component and recycles it. Details.

Subjects

Asceptic packaging

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