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What's new with Greyhound? That is, in addition to mov ing its headquarters to Phoe nix? The other news is an ecolo gy symbol to appear on the familiar label of Armour’s canned meats, Armour-Dial, Inc., marke ter of the nation’s top-selling line of canned meats and first to package them in easy-open aluminum cans, plans to iden tify its aluminum cans as “recyclable.” “WE BELIEVE this is the first use of a recyclable alu minum symbol on a food prod uct label,” said Henry W. Ladyn, vice president, food products. “Such additional exposure will, we expect, increase con sumer awareness that recycl ing of empty aluminum cans helps control, litter and con serves an ‘important natural resource,” Ladyn said. Ladyn estimated that it takes 13 million pounds of aluminum to package more than 250 million cans of sau sages, chili, corned beef hash, spreads and luncheon meats produced annually by Ar mour-Dial. “IF ALL THOSE empty aluminum cans were returned to reclamation centers for re cycling, they’d be worth $1.3 million at the current price,” Ladyn pointed out. The recycling symbol, de veloped by the Aluminum As sociation, features two semi circular arrows representing the continuous nature of the recycling process. Within the circle are the words ‘‘recycl able aluminum.” Armour-Dial also plans to include the symbol in its canned meats newspaper ad vertising, and will list the ad dress of the nearest local rec lamation centers. LEADING ALUMINUM pro ducers and a number of bev erage manufacturers have launched reclamation pro grams intended to recover and recycle empty aluminum cans and other aluminum packag ing scrap. Currently, collec tion centers are operating in some 300 locations in 16 states. Sponsoring companies have been paying the going rate for aluminum scrap + pre sently 10 cents per pound. Ladyn said the new sym bols will begin appearing on some Armour Star canned meat products “almost immediately,” and will be added to others as new labels are printed. Clad in aluminum Hot Pants, model shows new ecology symbol.
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Thu, Jun 24, 1971
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