PulpWorks, Inc. was founded in response to a worldwide plastic pollution crisis. Merely one example, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), accounts for 7 billion pounds of landfill annually. When plastics such as PVC are broken down in landfills, methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas, is released contributing to our global warming emergency. When incinerated, PVC releases cancer-causing dioxins that harm the immune and reproductive systems with links to breast cancer, as well.
As a popular packaging material, the production of PVC alone is responsible for unleashing 130 million pounds of CO2e into our atmosphere each year. Further, PVC’s principal (60%) raw material is chlorine, and energy-intensive chlorine production for PVC packaging consumes an estimated 5 billion kilowatt-hours – comparable, incredibly, to the annual output of some nuclear power plants.
And then there’s the plastic pollution crisis in our oceans. We have massive swirling islands (gyres) of plastic packaging debris in all of the world’s oceans. The Pacific Gyre is twice the size of Texas. The dangers to sea life and the impact on the fishing industry are well documented.
A noteworthy related issue is the hundreds of thousands of persons visiting emergency rooms annually as a result of lacerations suffered while attempting to open plastic blister packaging. (60,000 in the UK alone, last year.) Seniors, in particular, have little tolerance for this dangerous packaging. PulpWorks’ easy-to-open feature addresses this significant concern among the planet’s fastest growing age group.
Our sustainable packaging addresses the health of our planet as well as its citizens.
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