Say Cheese!

WBZ's Jordan Rich says plastic waste will soon be reduced with self-packing cheese. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. This is the upside with Jordan, another
dose of good news, because it's a big world out there.
A whole lot of us in the US love our cheese.
Almost thirty one million people eat a pound of more
of cheese singles per week. Now, that means a lot
of packaging that ends up in landfills, compounding the problem
of plastic waste. But smart and innovative companies are coming

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up with some solutions that help us, the consumers, as
well as the planet. As an alternative to single use
plastic wrapping, Ogle V Columbia and Nestley, Central America have
created something called self packing Cheese. It's a new biodegradable
film designed to decompose in just three hundred days. Now
that's a whole lot better than the estimated one thousand

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years it takes for standard plastics to break down on
the environment. And the material itself was entirely made from
cheese waste and whey, which is the byproduct created when
liquid separates from milk during the cheese making process. Every
pun intended way to go and that's the upside with Jordan.
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