Brands are migrating to cardboard or using new plastics that decompose naturally
In the 1960s no matter the retail store, the most-often used methods of bringing goods home were paper/Kraft bags, cardboard boxes or hand-carry—no plastic bags until the 1980s in most developed countries. Ever since, plastic refuse has been showing up on city streets and sidewalks, suburban lawns and drives, along highways and in the oceans—and plastic molecules are found in aquatic life, animals and humans.
But now, old is new again—at least somewhat. Today, fortunately, there is a move away from single-use plastic bags and packaging to paper and fiber-board solutions—and major retailers and dairy products producers like Chobani see the damage plastic has done to our environment and are migrating to either cardboard or using new plastics that will decompose naturally in the environment.