Supply-chain drama makes sustainability more challenging for natural-product makers

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BOULDER — Environmental sustainability efforts are more critical than ever, but as the global supply-chain crunch makes raw materials and packaging supplies more expensive for Boulder Valley area natural and organic product makers, those green initiatives become more challenging. 

“The stress from pandemic, climate change, population growth is only going to get worse,” organic foods entrepreneur and Flock LLC chairman Mark Retzloff said Tuesday during BizWest’s virtual Natural and Organic Product Industry CEO Roundtable. 

Companies in the space need to be leaders in responsibility, he said, especially because…