INDUSTRY CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 21 AICC Canada/CCCA 13th Annual Member Golf Tourna- ment, Nobleton Lakes Golf Club, Nobleton, Ontario OCTOBER 5-7 FTA Virtual Fall Conference 2020: Collaboration Achieves Perfect Vision. NOVEMBER 10 AICC Region 6 Dinner & TAPPI Trade Fair: Marriott Oak Brook, Oak Brook, Illinois. NOVEMBER 17-18 PPC Folding Carton Boot Camp: PPC Headquarters, Springfield, Massachusetts. DECEMBER 2-4 AICC Mexico 2020 Annual Meeting & Trade Show: Hotel Camino Real Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. APRIL 26-28, 2021 AICC Spring Meeting: Amelia Island, Florida. AUGUST 9-12, 2021 TAPPI/AICC SuperCorrExpo: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida.
Blue Box Is A Recycling Program Fourth, Ontario’s Blue Box is a recycling program. It is not a reduction program, although materials have been light-weighted over the years, more likely to save on costs than to avoid Blue Box fees. Nor is it a re-use program, al- though some of the materials do get re-used in one shape or another. And while the recyclability of a material is clear- ly a good thing, it is not the only factor to be considered when analysing a material’s overall environmental impact. The Blue Box cannot achieve all of these very desirable outcomes by itself, and it should not be expected to. It is a recycling program, focused on gathering dry recyclables (paper, plastic, glass and metal) from residential house- holds and sending them on to end-markets to be made into new products and packaging. Its current universe is some 1.3 million tonnes of waste (10 percent of Ontario’s total generated waste) and while recovery has flatlined a little bit recently, the Blue Box is still sending just over 60% of Ontario’s dry household waste on for recycling. It is re- sponsible for 25 percent of Ontario’s total recycling effort (not seven percent as some critics recently claimed). Paper The Key The key to understanding the Blue Box recycling pro- gram is that 73 percent of it is paper. Paper is the success story of Ontario’s Blue Box. More than 70 percent of all the paper that Ontario households generate is recovered through Old Blue. Several paper materials (corrugated boxes, magazines and catalogues, and newspapers) have recycling rates in the high 80s and 90s. And while the rev- enues for paper grades fluctuate and are currently some-
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