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For her college admission essay, Renee Crippen decided to write about … juice boxes.
Yes, those indispensable childhood refreshments.
Crippen, who attended Marina High School in Huntington Beach, wrote about an item she wished could be “uninvented.”
She argued that juice boxes, although made of recyclable materials, are densely packed, and most end up in landfills. Surely, Crippen thought, there could be a more earth-friendly container?
Juice boxes may not seem like a likely e