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Joanne Howarth wants to fleece the polystyrene packaging industry. The Sydney entrepreneur is on a mission to replace those annoyingly-everywhere beads and other squeaky packing material made from oil or methane with something more environment-friendly: wool. Natural health company Blackmores is among the companies interested in the idea.
Background reading:
- Joanne Howarth’s lightbulb moment came while she was working for one of Australia’s biggest meal-kit delivery companies
- The Labor government has been urged to speed up a plastic policy that will only this year ban the burger ‘clam shells’ axed by McDonalds in 1991.
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