Author name: John Mullinder

Executive Director Paper & Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC)

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Something fishy about crate supplier’s recycled content assumptions

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        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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L\’industrie du plastique fait des affirmations fausses à propos d\’une étude sur les sacs

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L\’industrie canadienne du plastique embellit la crédibilité d\’une étude qui, selon elle, prouve que les sacs de plastique sont plus écologiques que les sacs de papier. Selon le site Web de l\’industrie, le ULS Report (2007) « a été produit conformément aux normes ISO 14040-14043, et a fait l\’objet d\’une revue par les pairs de la North

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Plastics industry makes false claims for bag study

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The Canadian plastics industry is embellishing the credentials of a study it says proves that plastic bags are more “environmentally friendly” than paper bags. The industry’s website claims that the ULS Report (2007) “was completed according to ISO standards 14040-14043, and was peer reviewed by North Carolina State University.”  In fact, the ULS study (or

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The reports of paper’s death are greatly exaggerated

1 Comment / Corrugated Boxes, Paper Bags, Paper Packaging, Uncategorized /

We frequently hear and see comments about paper “dying” or being supplanted by other materials. It’s not happening, or at least not happening in the way many people think. While the weight of paper entering Ontario homes, for example, fell by 8% between 2003 and 2014,(( PPEC analysis of Stewardship Ontario Blue Box data for 2003

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Les vieilles études européennes du cycle de vie ont une valeur négligeable dans le contexte de la guerre des sacs au Canada

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Lorsque l’industrie du plastique diffuse à grande échelle des déclarations fausses ou trompeuses sur l’impact environnemental des sacs de papier au Canada, nous avons l\’obligation de nous défendre et de nous assurer que les Canadiens n\’ont pas seulement accès à des données partielles, mais à l’ensemble des faits. Ce que nous trouvons particulièrement choquant, c’est

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Old European “life cycle’’ studies are of little use in Canadian bag wars

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When the plastics industry promotes and widely circulates false and misleading claims about the environmental impact of paper bags in Canada we have an obligation to defend ourselves, and to ensure that Canadians get all the facts, not just some of them. What we find particularly offensive is the public parade of various European “life

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