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Better Farming Ontario magazine is published 11 times per year. After each edition is published, we share featured articles online.


Compostable bags for chips find special market

Monday, April 5, 2010

Frito Lay Canada is introducing what it bills as the first 100-per-cent compostable chip bag. The bags are made mostly of a polylactic acid that will break down within weeks in a compost heap. They are made in Arkansas and shipped to the Frito Lay plant in Cambridge. The first product to be packaged in the compostable bags is Sun Chips. Frito Lay, a division of PepsiCo Inc., figures people who eat that multi-grain snack are more interested in the environment than regular snack consumers. The new bag was described as "extremely expensive to produce," a hint that the price will go up when the new containers reach the market later this year. BF

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