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March 27, 2009

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Lloyd Alter

Ruben Anderson of the Tyee put it best:

"The places that say they recycle Tetra Paks are liars. What does "re" mean? It means again. Can a Tetra Pak be made into another Tetra Pak? No. Tetra Paks are seven incomprehensibly thin layers of paper, plastic and aluminum. The poor suckers who try to recycle them use giant blenders to mush the paper pulp off the plastic and metal, then they need to separate the plastic from the metal."

The recycling of Tetra Pak is completely for show, to make us feel better about using them.

Devin Taylor

Tetra Pak has a "recycling process" at its plant in Denton for unused packaging; burning the conglomerated 5 layer material in cement kilns...

Sandra

In Austria there are special boxes just for tetra pak. You flatten the container put in in the box and once it is filled up, put it on the curb on the selected day and it is picked up for recycling. In Sweden they also have a special bin for Tetra Pak recycling...

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I try my earnest to recycle, but often wondered about Tetra Paks which I buy because it's the only packaging for coconut water, organic chicken stock, etc. I agree that it does seem counterproductive that Whole Foods and a few organic products uses Tetra Paks, but I hope that the use of it will come to an end. I ask, what is the alternative packaging?

By the way, I googled "Are Tetra Paks recyclable?" and found your blog which I will continue to read.

Thank you for the post.

Antonio
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Jessica

I arrived here the same way as Antonio and also plan to stick around. :)

I am supremely bummed about this Tetra Pak situation. I know what I *really* need to be doing is making my own darn stock. Sigh.

kim

Clover Stornetta Farms milk cartons: if you look at the underside of the gable-top opening, you'll see it's labeled Tetra Pak. Which is why, on the bottom of the carton, it says "please recycle". I've been putting these in the green bin for curbside compost pick-up (full of my kitchen scraps), but I'm having trouble verifying that it's actually compostable. I suspect that, like other Tetra Paks, there's still a thin layer of plastic.

Andrea Martínez

Dear People,

My name is Andrea and I live in Utila, Honduras, we don't have recycling here in the island or Honduras. We burn the paper and the tetrapak is included do you recommend to burn it or what?

eleki pua

NO ANDREA DO NOT BURN IT! THE PAK CONTAINS PLASTIC AND ALUMINUM AND WE DON'T WANT THOSE RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE. IT WAS GOOD OF YOU TO ASK. XOX

rob

There was ones a good product for liquids of all types, which was also recyclable, its a product that would also remove the scurge of the plastic bottle too, what is it you ask, Glass. It used to be that you got stuff in glass bottles or jars and paid a deposit that you got back when you returned the glass bottle. radical idea try using glass instead of producing more plastic. Its washable and reusable. the only reason we are using plastic is to save the manufacturers money.

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