We hosted an excellent morning seminar recently that covered a lot of ground regarding paper packaging and the environment. At least that’s the feedback we’re getting, so we’ll take it! For a flavour of the event, check out this short video summary. First up was a presentation on the challenges and opportunities the industry faces. […]
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Nous avons récemment offert une excellente matinée de séminaire – c’est ce qu’on nous a dit. De nombreux sujets d’intérêt sur l’emballage de papier et sur les enjeux environnementaux propres au secteur y ont été couverts. Si vous voulez avoir une idée de la teneur de l’événement, nous vous invitons à en visionner des extraits
Ceci n’est pas un éloge, quoique… Read More »
The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) is quietly preparing the groundwork for some long-delayed action on printed paper and packaging in the industrial, commercial and institutional (IC & I) sector. Specifically, it wants a report by mid-March on the cost impacts and economic and greenhouse gas reduction benefits of diverting an additional
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Canadian box, bag and carton manufacturers can now print the word “Recyclable” and the Recyclable logos on their packaging, safe in the knowledge that the industry has independent, third-party proof to back up the claim. We’ve claimed recyclability for most paper packaging for years,based on our own knowledge, and an internal study. But now we
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En 2013, un expert en sécurité alimentaire de l’Université de Guelph affirmait que les contenants de plastique réutilisables (CPR) utilisés pour le transport des aliments d’un océan à l’autre contenaient tous les ingrédients d’une « recette pour un désastre »[1]. L’affirmation a fait les manchettes, même après les mises en garde du professeur Keith Warriner, aussi directeur
Le réemploi, la meilleure option? Read More »
A year ago, a food safety expert at the University of Guelph claimed that using reusable plastic crates (RPCs) to ship food in Canada was “a recipe for disaster”.[1] The claim made headlines even as Dr. Keith Warriner, Director of Food Safety and Quality, freely acknowledged that the data he used to derive his conclusion
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En adoptant la Loi sur le Réacheminement des déchets de 2002, le gouvernement ontarien voulait entre autres réglementer le financement provenant de l’industrie et s’assurer de capitaux suffisants pour son fameux programme des boîtes bleues. L’entente, un cas typique de compromis politique, consistait en un partage égal de la responsabilité financière du programme des boîtes bleues
Il faut revoir le financement du programme des boîtes bleues Read More »
One of the prime aims of the Ontario government when it passed the Waste Diversion Act of 2002 was to regulate and secure industry funding for the province’s popular Blue Box program. The deal, a typical political compromise, was for Blue Box financial responsibility to be shared 50/50 between industry stewards and municipalities. The hoped-for
Stewards need to rethink how they pay for the Blue Box Read More »
Actions always speak louder than words but a document coming out of the UN climate summit last week has the potential to halve the world’s natural forest loss within six years, and to end it within sixteen. The New York Declaration on Forests is a non-legally binding political agreement that has been endorsed by 32
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We have just launched a new website on the environmental attributes of paper boxes, but boy did we have a time before settling on what exactly to call it. You wouldn’t think there could be so many different names for what basically is a similar type of packaging material, but it’s a fact. There’s boxes,
