Category: Biodegradable & Compostable
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Local sustainable brand offers compostable undergarments
Local sustainable fashion brand Kent has come up with a solution to the problem of what to do with old underwear.
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SUNRAYS Wins at Global Packaging Competition
Jac. Vandenberg’s SUNRAYS® brand was celebrated for excellence in package innovation and sustainable design at the prestigious PAC Global Awards — RETHINKING MATERIALS Innovation and Investment Summit – May 16-17, London. 10% discount with code BPN10
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Peace Coffee Introduces Compostable EcoPods
Earth-Friendly K-Cups Available in Two Blends Nationally
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Glatfelter Launches 100 % Biobased and Home-Compostable Nonwoven Material with Organoclick’s Biobased Binder
Glatfelter Corporation (NYSE: GLT), a leading global supplier of engineered materials, will be exhibiting at INDEX™23, the world’s leading nonwovens exhibition, from April 18-21, 2023, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Rounton Coffee Roasters launch home compostable specialty coffee pods
Independent coffee roaster, Rounton Coffee Roasters, based in North Yorkshire has launched its first-ever line of sustainable specialty coffee pods.
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Great Wrap Launches Compostable Pallet Wrap
Climate tech startup Great Wrap is now producing compostable pallet wrap
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LifeMade Compostable Straws Receive OK compost HOME Certification
LifeMade Products LLC (LifeMade), an operating company of Jadex Inc., is proud to announce that the company’s LifeMade® Compostable Straws have received OK compost HOME certification from TÜV Austria. This achievement is in addition to the product’s BPI Commercially Compostable certification previously received.
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Researchers Think Biodegradable Material Could Replace Glass As We Know It
Researchers in China have developed a new type of glass they claim is both biodegradable and biorecyclable
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University of Kentucky Student Creates Compostable Paper Recycling Program
Inspired by ideas from a Symposium on Energy, University of Kentucky student and UK Recycling’s programmatic support intern, Shaun Lavin, started a pilot composting program for brown paper towels on campus.
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Smile Compostable Solution Coffee Pod Receives Two New Compostable Certifications
Compost Manufacturing Alliance (CMA) awarded commercial compostability status to Smile Compostable Solutions’ coffee pod
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Eco-Products Earns Industry First for Compostable Packaging with No-Added PFAS (FREE)
Eco-Products’ Vanguard clamshell is the first molded fiber item made with no-added PFAS to be approved by the Compost Manufacturing Alliance
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Foldable and Compostable Coffee Cup Gets Rid of Annoying Plastic Lid
Called the Good Cup, the patented cup took years to get right.
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12 Coffee Brands That Use Compostable Pods
So, since we all want to see earth survive a little longer, several coffee companies have started making compostable pods.
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Somedays Pain Relief Goes Compostable Packaging
Somedays’ Belly Jelly in compostable packaging
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Value of Compostable Packaging
What is the value of compostable packaging when there’s no access to industrial composting sites.
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Half Magic Launches Compostable Eyeshadows
The eyeshadow compacts are made from potato starch and cellulose.
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Emblematics Switches to Compostable Bags
The supplier says it’s phasing out traditional polybags to package its branded lapel pins, coins and keychains.
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CNBC Article on a New Line of Compostable Fashion
Hate fast fashion? You can compost this new streetwear clothing line
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Processing of Bioplastics in Biogas Production
Processing of bioplastics in biogas production: a forward-looking waste management solution
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Compostable Packaging Degradation Pilot Launched
Led by the Composting Consortium, the pilot will generate data to help shape international standards for field testing compostable packaging and contribute to the launch of an open-source results database.
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Ghana Launches Edible and Compostable Packaging Pilot
MESTI, partners launch edible and compostable packaging pilot project
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Waitrose Debuts Compostable Own Brand Tea Bags
Waitrose has today announced it has become the first UK supermarket to sell own brand tea bags that are certified as suitable for home composting, in a move designed to make it easier for customers to safely recycle their used tea bags.
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Victoria Bans Compostable Plastics and Bioplastics
Victoria is about to ban a slew of plastics — even compostable ones. Here’s what businesses need to know
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Calgary Co-op Seeking Bylaw Exemption for Compostable Bags
Representatives from Calgary Co-op were at city council seeking a bylaw exemption for their compostable shopping bags.
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Canadian Hospital Goes for Compostable and Biodegradable Face Masks
London, Ontario, Hospital goes for plant-based polymer Face Masks
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Consumer Reports on Compostable Plastics
Is That Really Compostable? Composting is a great way to save food scraps from ending up in a landfill. But some items labeled “compostable” won’t break down in your backyard.
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France Info Says Compostable Packaging Are Dangerous for your Health
France Info is a radio network operated by the French public service radio broadcaster Radio France. It provides continuous live news and information.
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Blue Bottle Goes Compostable Packaging
The Convenience and Sustainability of Blue Bottle’s Craft Instant Coffee Packets
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New York Legalises Human Composting
The process goes like this: the body of the deceased is placed into a reusable vessel along with plant material such as wood chips, alfalfa and straw.
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New Zealand to Mandate Compostable Fruit Stickers
New Zealand to Mandate Compostable Stickers for Imported Fruit Starting Mid-2025
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Compostable Bags Have Twice the Global Warming Impact of Traditional Plastic writes the Daily Mail
Marketing compostable plastics as good for the planet is ‘greenwashing’ writes the Daily Mail
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Coffee Pods and Tea Bags can Now be Placed in Organic Waste Containers in the Netherlands
Although some may have been doing it for years – secretly or otherwise – it is now officially allowed: throwing away coffee pods and tea bags with the vegetable, fruit and garden waste (VGFT). This will add tens of millions of kilos of compost on an annual basis, the industry expects.
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Lebanon, New Hampshire, Accepts Compostable Bags at Composting Facility
Food waste can now be disposed of free of charge at Lebanon’s solid waste facility
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FTC Reviews of Recyclable & Compostable Claims
Federal Trade Commission Seeks Public Comment on Potential Updates to its ‘Green Guides’ for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims
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Compostable Bags Generate More Global Warming to Plastic and Paper
Indian news channel says that compostable bags generate global warming
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C&A and Levi’s to Trial Compostable Polybags
Fashion brands to trial compostable polybags
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New Thinking About Compostable Packaging
Compostable packaging is not THE answer. But it is AN answer.
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India Mandates Compostable Plastic Packaging
Govt mandates 100% recycling of compostable plastic packaging materials from 2023-24 — Well done by the compostable plastic industry. However, god knows how India will manage this in practice.
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ANSES Recommends a Ban on Home Compostable Plastics
ANSES is the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety.
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TIPA Extends Partnership With Apiece Apart
TIPA Extends Partnership With Apiece Apart, Carving a Path Towards Circular Fashion with Fully Compostable Packaging
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Maha (India) Govt Allows Compostable Materials
Maha govt tweaks policy on single-use plastic, allows compostable materials
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Cafe Imports Switches To Compostable Bags For Green Coffee Samples
Cafe Imports Switches To 100% Compostable Bags For Green Coffee Samples
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EU Policy Framework on Biobased, Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics
Communication – EU policy framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics; and the Synopsis report on the consultation on the policy framework on biobased, bio-degradable and compostable plastic
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This Plastic Packaging Alternative Can Compost in a Year
British startup Shellworks is fed up with waste, so it created a vegan material that can be turned into compost.
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Coles Group to Launch SECOS MyEcoBag
Coles Group will be launching MyEcoBag™ compostable bag products by SECOS in 770 retail stores across Australia.
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CompostAble Chicago Study report
The Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) and partners have released the CompostAble Chicago study report.
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Compostable Packaging in Canada Ends up in Landfill Says CBC
What happens to compostables in Ottawa green bins?
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Compostable Plastics Aren’t Working Says CNN
‘Compostable plastic’ doesn’t live up to its environmental claims says CNN
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SUP Compostable Alternatives Fiasco in Australia
The Australian example shows that there’s a problem dealing with compostable packaging.
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UK Big Compost Experiment Report
This report contains summary figures of 24 months’ data (07/11/19 – 07/11/21) from the Big Compost Experiment UK-wide citizen science study (UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub).
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Abel & Cole Moves Away from Compostable Plastics
The organic food delivery company said it was removing compostable plastic from all its fruit and vegetable boxes “effective immediately” and was working with suppliers to remove the material entirely from its offering by the end of 2023.
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How Many UK Composting Sites Accepts Compostable Packaging?
You need to read my remarks at the bottom of the article.
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Ocean Halo Goes Compostable Broth Pods
Ocean’s Halo is further immersing itself into the new era of sustainability by acquiring the license to use BPI Certified Commercially Compostable pods from Smile Compostable Solutions® for its vegan quick-cup broths.
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BPI Certifies ProActive Compostable CPM 200
Biodegradable Products Institute Certifies ProAmpac’s High Barrier ProActive Compostable Laminate
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Zespri Switches to Compostable Labels in European Markets
Zespri has confirmed that all of its kiwifruit in Europe for the upcoming Northern Hemisphere supply season will feature compostable labels, including trialling a home compostable label in France.
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Humble Potato Chips Goes Compostable Packaging
The crisps bags are Industrial Compostable Certified ?? Although, I like the concept of the crisps … I wonder who certified those bags as industrially compostable? The composters have no clue what’s coming into their direction 🙂
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Ecosac Launches Ecopath Line of Biodegradable Consumer Products
ECOSAC launches Ecopath- A Line of Biodegradable Consumer Products
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Compostable School Backpack
Biodegradable school backpack created to tackle plastic pollution — Once you don’t need them anymore, you can throw them in your compost bin … 🙂 🙂 🙂 … Good luck with that!
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Introducing Smile Compostable Solutions
Smile Beverage Werks, PBC officially changed its name to Smile Compostable Solutions.
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Australian EPA Says No to Compostable Packaging
Newly clarified Environment Protection Authority (EPA) regulations state that items such as compostable packaging, cardboard, animal faeces and teabags will not be permitted in green FOGO bins — What’s interesting is the justification they give for the ban; be careful for global jurisprudence.
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KFC to Test New Compostable Packaging System
KFC to test a new compostable packaging system
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Leaf No Watse Winner of the Food Challenge
Leaf no waste came with a solution to the problem of compostable packaging who causes premature food spoilage and increase food waste.
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Human Burial Composting in California
California’s dead will have a new burial option: Human composting
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Green Sports Alliance Launches Food Waste Diversion and Compostable Packaging Playbook
The purpose of this playbook is to address how certified compostable food serviceware and packaging can play a vital role in sports venues, by facilitating organic waste diversion from landfills to composting facilities — I’ve just discovered that GSA is a NatureWorks lobby & promotional organisation
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Del Monte Goes for Biocompostable Stickers on Bananas
Del Monte goes for home compostable fruit stickers — I like the “biocompostable” reference … just to be sure to include everything.
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City of Victoria Says No to Compostable Plastics
The city of Victoria (Canada) published a list of items that is (dis)allowed in the curbside organic waste collection. They seem to accept only one compostable plastic item.
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Reliance Polymers Goes Bioplastics
RIL is looking at biodegradable and compostable plastics
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Dark Wood Coffee Goes Compostable Packaging
Dark Woods Coffee, a speciality coffee roaster based in West Yorkshire, UK, has announced it has chosen home compostable packaging from Parkside for its range of hospitality and B2B supplied coffee beans.
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Gomorrah Fully Compostable Menswear Line
Gomorrah Introduces Fully Compostable Menswear Line — Fully compostable clothes? I wonder what you’re supposed to do with them: throw them in your backyard or with your organic waste? I’m sure natural cotton and linen clothes may degrade naturally in the open environment but using marketing claims such as “compostable” is one step close of…
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Lavazza Launches Compostable Coffee Capsules
Lavazza launches new range of compostable coffee capsules — The ideal coffee brewing temperature is between 90 and 96 ° Celsius. So the compostable caps can resist that temperature, but is expected to decompose in the compost which is at a lower temperature. Another great mystery.
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Domino Printing and Futamura Partner on Compostable Laser Coding
Laser Coding of NatureFlex™ Compostable Film for Food Packaging: Domino and Futamura Collaboration
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Green Dot Bioplastics Launches Compostable Resins for Packaging
New Film, Thermoforming, and Injection Molding Grades are Ready to Meet Sustainability Demands of Brand Owners and Consumers
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Burien Compostable Products Ordinance
Banned items under the Compostable Products Ordinance in Burien
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US Clothing Label Goes for Compostable Clothes
Brooklyn-Based Clothing Label Wants Its Clothes To Be Fully Compostable — Compostable clothes? Compostable has become a synonym for greenwashing
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Corona India Goes Biodegradable and Compostable Packaging
Corona India Launches New 100% Biodegradable And Compostable Packaging Using Barley Straw
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TotalEnergies Corbion on PLA and Compostable Plastics (FREE)
PLA compostable bioplastics, towards a circular economy. This is a FREE article.
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Novolex Introduces RollStar EZ Open Produce Bags (FREE)
Manufactured by Hilex, the new bags make shopping for produce easier for customers —and are offered in both conventional and compostable versions. This is a FREE article
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Chrysal Compostable Sachet Receives Home Compostable Certificate
Chrysal Compostable Sachet Receives Home Compostable Certificate
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Independent Testing of PLA, PBAT and BDP Residues in Compost
NatureWorks Ingeo PLA, BASF Ecoflex PBAT and more compostable plastics were independently tested by a team of researchers. The compost was tested after the biodegradation of compostable plastics. The researchers did a remarkable job.
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Earth & Wheat and Treetop Biopak Partner on Compostable Packaging
‘Wonky’ bread subscription service Earth & Wheat has teamed up with Treetop Biopak to switch to compostable packaging.
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Californian School Discovers Problem with Compostable Packaging
Compostable School Lunch Packaging Isn’t Actually Compostable
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Tipa and G Mondini Partner on Compostable Wet Food Container
TIPA Partners with G.Mondini to Produce Home Compostable Wet Food Container
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Comostable Plastic Cups in Halifax Canada
Despite being 100% compostable, these drink cups will still end up in the landfill
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World Centric Expands NoTree Compostable Collection
World Centric® Expands NoTree® 100% Compostable Collection with New Tall and Rectangular Takeout Containers
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First Compostable Packaging for Deli Meats
C-P Flexible Packaging and Volpi Foods Launch First Fully Compostable Package for Packaged Deli Meats
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Eastman and NC State University Partner on Compostable Take Out Containers
Design Students Develop Compostable Take-Out Container Prototypes in Project Sponsored by Eastman
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R&R Smith Goes Compostable Packaging
A Triumph over Single-Use-Plastic: Leading Australian Produce Supplier R&R Smith Adopt Certified Home Compostable Packs for Organic Apples
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Cannondale Goes Compostable Bottle
Cannondale goes with compostable bottles for the Giro d’Italia
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Ireland to Tax Compostable Coffee Cups
Compostable or recyclable coffee cups won’t escape latte levy as law to impose 20 cent charge imminent
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New Zealand Recommends Cautious Approach for Compostable Packaging (FREE)
The Ministry for the Environment has issued a warning about compostable packaging – likening it to single-use plastics. This is a FREE article
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Tea Spot Goes Compostable Packaging
The Tea Spot introduces 100% compostable packaging for Earth Day
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Bluestone Lane Compostable Capsules for Nespresso Machines
Bluestone Lane introduces 100% biodegradable and compostable Nespresso® compatible capsules of its four signature blends in celebration of Earth Day
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Illinois May Go for Compostable Foodware
Bill mandates compostable foodware in Illinois state parks
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Good Start Packaging Says Home Compostable Doesn’t Work
Good Start Packaging Working to Reduce Environmental Impact of Takeout Food
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LA County Board Approves Ordinance for Compostable Products
LA County Board of Supervisors gives preliminary approval for compostable products
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