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Not excusing it, but food packagers care about durability of goods, and cleanliness of goods, in that order.
They don't want to lose money on lost goods, and they don't want to end up in the news for a sanitation issue
Any environmental concern comes as a different third to those 2 topics.
Environment defintiely is not third given that you haven't mentioned profits yet, which is definitely their #1 priority.
Obviously, that was implied. Why would the business be making anything at all if not for profit?