More Glass Packaging Recovery, Less Piracy?
Sunday, October 7th, 2007When discussing recovery/recycling among packaging materials in Brazil, glass sometimes suffers by comparison. Brazil is a world leader in recycling PET and aluminum cans, and high among recyclers of corrugated cardboard (77%). Brazil’s 45% annual recycling rate for glass packaging is better than the glass packaging rate for the US (but then again, the US […]
Fighting the Growing Menace of Counterfeit Drugs
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Have you ever bought medicine at a pharmacy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? I'm not talking about the big, sophisticated ones you might find in Buenos Aires or Rio de Janeiro. I'm speaking of those small ones in places like Santo Domingo or small towns in the Central American countryside, which are often […]