Reusable Food Packaging—Reverse Distribution

Recycle, recover, return, recast, repeat, retain, reverse, reuse. All are words that reflect the obsession some have directed to retaining environmental quality on our third rock from the sun. Here is a closer look at some of this terminology.

Recycle means to recover and reprocess into the same or similar or something useful so that the molecules are not lost in space. It applies to bottles, cans, plastic, glass, aluminum, steel, paper and paperboard, wood, edible food scrap, inedible food scra…