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October 06, 2010

Frito Lay Withdraws Eco SunChips Bags And Goes Back To Lab

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Snack maker Frito Lay has reverted to the original non-biodegradable material for five of its six SunChips brand bags after consumer feedback indicated its new 100 per cent plant-based polylactic acid (PLA) packaging was too noisy. [...]
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October 05, 2010

Unintended Consequences: Green Products Edition

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My colleague Kate Sheppard just posted a funny-yet-disturbing piece about how Frito-Lay is ditching it's compostable Sun Chips bags because customers are [...]

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October 05, 2010

Compostable Sun Chips Bags Are Causing Quite The Crunch | Wend ...

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Have you heard the most recent news about Sun Chips' compostable bags? Probably not if you've been munching from one of those bags. The new 100 percent biodegradable bags are so loud that people are starting to make a fuss. [...]

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October 05, 2010

God, Politics, And Rock 'n' Roll: Noisy Sun Chips Bag, R.I.P.

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My family likes Sun Chips. And we dutifully bought the new biodegradable bag and placed it on the shelf in the cabinet with the other chips. But our kids, as well as a bunch of consumers, noticed that the new bag is NOISY. [...]

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October 05, 2010

Foodbuzz 24 24 24: An Apple Picking Party & Picnic

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Saturday morning, just before our supper party by the river, we packed a picnic basket, an old patchwork quilt and the kid in the car and set out on the long dirt road that connects our high alpine valley to Colorados western slope. Its a long drive, but when the wildflowers bloom in July and agai [...]

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October 06, 2010

Frito-Lay To Pull Most Noisy SunChips Bags | 89.3 KPCC

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Frito-Lay hopes to quiet complaints about its noisy SunChips bags by switching out the biodegradable bags for the old packaging on most flavors. [...]
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October 05, 2010

Red Over Green

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There are companies for whom being green is a way of life. Its never a question of paper or plastic, but rather something can be reused. Nothing artificial. Price is not the issue; its all about the environment. And then there are companies who put on the green mask as a charade, window dressing i [...]

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October 05, 2010

Sun Chips Ditches Biodegradable Bag Over Noise Complaints | Bescomsoft

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Victory! After subjecting American consumersfamous for their sensitive hearingto the annoying crinkling of their 100% compostable Sun Chips bags, the Frito-Lay company has decided to discontinue the bags and go back to their [...]

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October 05, 2010

Sun Chips Chips - Shop Sales, Stores & Prices At TheFind.com

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Sun Chips Chips - 712 results from 594 stores, including Sunchips Multigrain Snacks Original, 1.5-Ounce Large Single Serve Bags, Sun Chips Multigrain Snacks - French Onion - Pack [...]

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October 05, 2010

My Worm Compost Bin & A Test Of "compostable" Sun Chips Bag #FB

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I forgot to mention in my last worm bin post that I was putting the Sun Chips "fully compostable bag" into my bin to see if it really does decompose and how fast it does it while in an actual compost bin. [...]

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October 05, 2010

Hush! Frito-Lay To Pull Most Noisy SunChips Bags - Money News ...

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NEW YORK -- Frito-Lay hopes to quiet complaints about its noisy SunChips bags by switching out the biodegradable bags for the old packaging on most flavors. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. [...]
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October 05, 2010

Sun Chips: Our Bags No Longer Go To 11

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Given that the Wall Street Journal equated the loudness of its biodegradable eco-bag with the destruction of the human race, it comes as no surprise that Sun Chips is scrapping its earth-friendly (but very loud) packaging. USA Today reports: Roughly 18 months after Frito-Lay, with great fanfare, lau [...]

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October 06, 2010

Hush! Frito-Lay To Pull Most Noisy SunChips Bags (AP ...

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This product image provided by the Frito-Lay, shows SunChips with the compostable chip AP Frito-Lay hopes to quiet complaints about its noisy SunChips bags by switching out the biodegradable bags for the old packaging on most flavors. [...]

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October 06, 2010

Sun Chips' New Bag To Lose Its Crunch

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Snack giant Frito-Lay will pull most of the biodegradable packaging it uses for its Sun Chips snacks, following an outcry from consumers who complained the new bags were too [...]

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October 06, 2010

Sun Chips To Pull It's Noisy PLA Bag

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The headline pretty much says it all. The Wall Street Journal, who you will recall shocked us all by mentioning and attempting to explain glass transition in an earlier report on the bag, is now reporting that Frito-Lay will continue to work on developing a quieter bag, but in the mean time, will go [...]

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October 05, 2010

Sun Chips' New Bag To Lose Its Crunch

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