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APPENDIX B MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
APPENDIX B MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
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In fact, storage of empty food distribution containers adjacent to food storage may be feasible. Although the initial investment in reusable shipping containers is larger than for the same number of corrugated boxes, the longer life and avoidance of disposal costs render them highly economical in a variety of uses in the private sector, notably in the 49
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To minimize the difficulties encountered, serious attention should be given to minimizing the volume of food-contaminated materials by source reduction of packaging. In practice, this will often mean substitution of flexible packages for bulkier rigid containers.
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There are substantial opportunities for source reduction in this area, many of them along the lines discussecl above for shipping containers. Here too a switch from rigid to flexible packaging structures may be feasible and result in substantially less packaging waste for disposal.
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