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Costco tests a switch from rigid to flexible packaging for its rotisserie chickens

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Costco anticipates the substrate switch will reduce the plastic it uses for the chicken products by 75%, aligning with packaging guidelines it adopted last year. Its five-year action plan for plastics reduction is coming soon.

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