Canada Raises Recycled Content In Packaging
The Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Coun- cil (PPEC) has announced the results of its 16th biennial Recy- cled Content Survey. Every two years, PPEC surveys Canadian paper mills about their paper packaging import and export shipments, to determine the average recycled content used to make paper-based packaging products in Canada. The average recycled content of domestic Canadian ship- ments of the three major packaging grades — container- board (used to make corrugated boxes), boxboard (used to make boxboard cartons), and kraft paper (used to make paper bags) — is 81.7 percent, according to the 2020 sur- vey, up from 73.5 percent in 2018.The average has steadily increased from 47 percent in 1990, when PPEC first started collecting recycled content data from Canadian paper mills. 2020 PPEC Recycled Content Survey Key Findings: • Total Canadian paper mill shipments: 3.37 million tons; • Total recycled content shipments to domestic and ex- port markets: 2.35 million tons; • Average recycled content of domestic shipments for all three major packaging grades: 81.7 percent; • Average recycled content for domestic shipments of boxboard, which is used to make cereal or shoeboxes: 79.8 percent; and • Average recycled content for domestic shipments of containerboard, which is used to make corrugated shipping boxes: 86.5 percent.
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