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Anyone who has seen a child tear open their presents on Christmas morning knows how little attention gets paid to the wrapping - it's all about what's inside.Yet packaging is responsible for an extraordinarily high proportion of waste, which all too often ends up in the wrong place. As this chart shows, packaging generates more plastic waste than the next four biggest industrial sectors combined.Driven in part by pressure from increasingly environmentally-conscious consumers, many companies are changing the way their products are packaged to be more sustainable.

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