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Commercial locations such as grocery stores have been “wonderful partners” in baling corrugating boxes and sending them back to manufacturers to create new boxes, and Kenyon encouraged the produce industry sup- ply chain to remind consumers to recycle boxes they re- ceive with e-commerce transactions. “The big push for us is to encourage consumers to re- cycle, so if there’s anything produce companies or grocery retailers can to say to consumers, ‘If you get a box in your home, please recycle it in recycling bin’; it’s really import- ant for us to get that fiber back,” Kenyon said. “We need that fiber.” Weyerhaeuser Appoints Graham As President Of Its Canadian Subsidiary Seattle, Washington based Weyerhaeuser Company has announced the appointment of David Graham as Presi- dent of Weyerhaeuser Company Limited, its wholly owned Canadian Subsidiary, effective January 1, 2022. Graham will report to Travis Keatley, Senior Vice President of Tim- berlands, and his appointment follows the planned retire- ment of Fred Dzida, who has served as President of the company’s Canadian subsidiary since 2014 and will stay on through March 2022 to aid in the transition. Graham joined Weyerhaeuser in 1991 as an engineer and has held a variety of senior leadership positions.
drivers. Corrugated packaging is widely recycled, which allows the industry to create new boxes from recycled con- tent. The recovery rate for corrugated material is around 90 percent, she said. For antitrust reasons, Kenyon said FBA does not track prices or the inflation experienced by the corrugated suppliers and customers. Corrugated manufacturers want to make sure regula- tors and lawmakers credit the work the industry has al- ready done to encourage recycling. “An average box has 52 percent recycled content, but we are always looking for improvement,” Kenyon said. Next year, Kenyon said the Fibre Box Association plans to issue its fourth update of the corrugated life cycle as- sessment since the first report was issued in the early 2000s. The document will report metrics such as green- house gas emissions. “We are always looking for continuous improvement and how are our practices are performing,” she said. In addition, the industry is looking at the issue of formally cer- tifying corrugated packaging as compostable. Corrugated dry box packaging is produced from fiber, starch and wa- ter, and will naturally biodegrade. While continuing to encourage all consumers who re- ceive e-commerce boxes to recycle those boxes, Kenyon said the industry is working toward having the corrugated box certified as compostable.
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