Sustainable packaging a hit with Seattle Mariners

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Baseball team trials 100 per cent compostable packaging in a bid to divert 90 per cent of waste from landfill

Baseball fans have become the first people to try peanuts in new fully compostable packaging developed by German chemical giant BASF. Free packets were handed out to the first 10,000 people to arrive...

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