For example, food vendors in the main Olympic Park will use compostable packaging made mainly from starch and cellulose-based bio-plastics.

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The company's biggest problem has been its flexible-packaging business, the smallest of the three main product groups, which has been hit by fierce competition in Europe and by poor management.

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The real question is whether flexible packaging has any logical connection with Danisco's main focus on food ingredients.

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The main reasons teenagers start smoking is because of peer pressure and parental influence, not packaging.

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