Liz Pinfield-Wells was about to feed her infant son, Albert, when she looked down at the plastic pouch of baby food in her hand.
“Wow, that seems like a lot of packaging,” Pinfield-Wells recalled thinking to herself that day four years ago. “I started looking into whether it can be recycled.”
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