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FEATURE
Plant-based bottles: What does Sustainability look like in the Bottled Water Industry? Bio-degradable packaging could revolutionise the industry, and Tariq Al Wahedi, CEO of Agthia Group PJSC, is leading the way
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he food and beverage industry, just like all industry sectors, is undergoing a sustainability revolution, and product packaging is at the centre of this transition. It is difficult to imagine a life without the cheap, versatile, safe, and extremely useful plastic packaging. But as billions of pounds of plastic flow into the ocean each year and inevitably end up in our own bodies, bioplastics have emerged as a potential alternative. Agthia Group PJSC was the first in the Gulf region to act on this unconventional material and launched a 100%
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