PPEC Celebrates Int’l Women’s Day With Paulina Leung Of Emterra In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8, the Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) recognized the contributions of women in our industry. PPEC recently sat down with Paulina Leung, Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at Oakville, Ontario based Emterra Group, to discuss her insights on industry issues, including the importance of consumer education, the challenge of contamination, the need to ‘onshore’ re- cycling, and the importance of data. The following is an excerpt from that interview: Q. What does an average day as Chief Sustainability Of- ficer at Emterra Group look like for you? Working as the CSO in the family business is different than being a CSO in another organization, as many parts of my role are unwritten and not in the “job description.” For Emterra, sustainability represents the financial, human, and environmental aspects of the company, so there is a lot of inward reflection while trying to anticipate the de- mands of external factors—customers, legislation and reg- ulations, competitors, and suppliers. I’m a morning person, so my day starts with a quick work out or hot yoga to re- fresh and move my mind and body. Q. How has the industry changed in the nearly 20 years you have been with Emterra? Changes in this industry can be categorized as either incremental or step-wise. In terms of incremental, while the diversity of people has expanded, we still have a long way to go to make this industry’s workforce mirror the com- munities it services. In terms of major step-wise, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is rapidly developing, and because of these new policies, the value chain for recy- cling is changing, with new players entering the industry and existing players changing their business strategies, plans, and investments. Q. As residential packaging recycling programs evolve to producer responsibility models, we expect to see more paper-based packaging materials collected in Blue Boxes. What needs to be done to ensure those materials are actually recycled? The new EPR regulations have various types of targets and most of the time, we look to the material recovery fa- CONTINUED ON PAGE 36 Paulina at the Material Recycling Facility helping to sort col- lected recyclable materials.
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