With his four-year-old son in mind at the time, Joe Sleiman says he knew more than 20 years ago he didn’t want to manufacture plastic produce labels.
The president of Accu-Label in Lakeshore, Ont., began designing paper stickers in the late 1990s, with the company opening in 2001.
“I spent a couple of years researching, and I came back and I said to the guys locally in the Leamington area, ‘We’ve got to go paper. My son is four years old. I do not want him biting into a piece of fruit and accidentally eating plastic. It’s just not going to happen.'”
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