John Mullinder, Author at The Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC)

Le lobby du plastique raconte des salades et continue à discréditer les sacs de papier

En voilà un beau mensonge ! Le lobby du plastique tente de nous faire croire que seulement 7 % des sacs de magasinage en plastique sont jetés à Montréal : « ZÉRO DÉCHET – OU PRESQUE », proclame-t-il fièrement. Quelle exagération ! Cette affirmation est carrément trompeuse et malhonnête. Le lobby du plastique obtient un total impressionnant de 93 % en combinant […]

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Plastic lobby tells a big whopper, continues to smear paper bags

2 Comments / Paper Bags, Recyclable / By John Mullinder

As whoppers go, this is a big one. The plastics lobby wants you to believe that only 7% of plastic shopping bags are thrown away in Montreal: “ZERO WASTE – CLOSE TO IT,” it proudly claims. What a stretch! The claim is blatantly misleading and dishonest. What the plastics lobby has done is combine a

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Packaging is the villain again (sigh)

Compostable, Paper Packaging, Recyclable / By John Mullinder

There is no doubt that some goods are over-packaged and that more can be done to reduce the amount of paper, glass, metal and plastic packaging that ends up in consumers’ homes. But blaming packaging all the time is only part of the story. To put it bluntly, we in the so-called developed world eat,

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Dick Staite: former PPEC director and “interim” chair

1 Comment / Uncategorized / By John Mullinder

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Dick Staite, a former chairman of PPEC and a long-time employee of Atlantic Packaging in Toronto. In the early 1990s, Dick’s boss, Harry Shelson, came to him and said: “I want you to join PPEC.” Dick had no idea what PPEC was. Told that

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Did you know that more adult diapers are now sold in Nova Scotia than baby diapers?

Compostable, Recyclable / By John Mullinder

This is not a knock on Nova Scotia, simply pointing out that aging baby boomers are beginning to impact both the products and the packaging that Canadians will use in the future. The diaper info comes courtesy of John Wright, Senior Fellow at the Angus Reid Institute, who just happens to be a keynote speaker

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Paper recycling represents 40% of Canada’s waste diversion

Organics, Paper Recycling, Waste Diversion / By John Mullinder

A recent Statistics Canada report on household e-waste reveals some interesting diversion data on other materials. Paper, for example, represented 40% of what was diverted in Canada from both residential and non-residential sources in 2012. Paper recycling has increased by about 8% since 2002. The diversion of organics has really jumped, however, and now represents

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Something really fishy about plastic crate study

Uncategorized / By John Mullinder

The battle between the corrugated box and the plastic crate industries for share of the fresh produce market is getting stranger by the minute. The latest twist is the release by leading crate supplier, IFCO, of a comparative life cycle analysis (LCA) that, guess what, favours the crate. At first IFCO released only the executive

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Les hypothèses sur le contenu recyclé des fournisseurs de caisses de plastique soulèvent des doutes

Non classifié(e) / By John Mullinder

POUR PUBLICATION IMMÉDIATE CONTACT : Rachel Kenyon (847) 364-9600, rkenyon@fibrebox.org Cheryl Reynhout (401) 932-8126, creynhout@corrugated.org Katharine Eaton (202) 463-2434, katharine_eaton@afandpa.org UN RAPPORT D\’IFCO CONTIENT DES DONNÉES INEXACTES SUR LES CAISSES EN CARTON ONDULÉ ITASCA, IL (10 mai 2016) – La Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) a examiné l\’étude récemment publiée par IFCO intitulée Comparative Life Cycle Assessment

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L\’industrie du plastique retire en silence ses fausses affirmations sur les sacs

Non classifié(e) / By John Mullinder

L\’industrie canadienne du plastique a retiré sans faire de bruit deux des fausses affirmations sur les sacs qui étaient affichées sur son site Web. Le CEEPC avait souligné ces prétentions dans un blogue le mois dernier. On a retiré la fausse affirmation selon laquelle le ULS Report avait été produit conformément aux normes ISO 14040-14043 et avait

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Something fishy about crate supplier’s recycled content assumptions

Uncategorized / By John Mullinder

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rachel Kenyon (847) 364-9600, rkenyon@fibrebox.org Cheryl Reynhout (401) 932-8126, creynhout@corrugated.org Katharine Eaton (202) 463-2434, katharine_eaton@afandpa.org IFCO REPORT USES INACCURATE DATA FOR CORRUGATED CONTAINERS ITASCA, IL (May 10, 2016) – The Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) reviewed IFCO’s recently-published Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable Plastic Containers and Display- and

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