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NEW YORK (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. The Plano-based company is switching back ...

Every day, I pack my son’s lunch. I used to heedlessly throw a bagel into a plastic bag and seal it up. It’s easier for him to use than the many other washable lunch containers out there, which means ...

Frito-Lay announced today that starting in 2010, all of their multigrain SunChips will be packaged in biodegradable bags made out of plant based materials. This is brilliant. I can only hope that they ...

Multinational baking giant Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV of Mexico City has unveiled what it claims are the world's first oxo-biodegradable metalized polypropylene snack bags. The packaging uses the d2w ...

The news that Frito-Lay is withdrawing its new biodegradable SunChips bags because consumers found them too loud has driven Atlantic.com’s wonderful Alexis Madrigal into a state of mad despair at the ...

If anybody missed it, a few days before Earth Day last month, Pepsico FritoLay gave an interesting glimpse into its new packaging for its SunChips brand in a splash of TV ads. Spot: An empty SunChips ...

Using plastic bags is an ecological disaster; it takes about 1,000 years for one to degrade in a landfill (and even then, it leaves behind microplastics that can add toxins to soil or water).