Voici une similitude frappante entre le cycle de vie du papier et le cycle de la vie des humains : avec le vieillissement viennent la faiblesse et l’usure. Quel oiseau de malheur, vous dites-vous peut-être! Chose certaine, l’espèce humaine a besoin d’une infusion de jeunesse et de force afin de se perpétuer; même chose pour les […]
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There are two things that bug us about the recent packaging campaign launched by US-based environmental group, Upstream: its misleading use of data (outlined in an earlier blog) and its superficial and one-sided view of how the paper packaging industries in both Canada and the United States work. Basically what Upstream claims is that all
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There’s no question that the folks at the US-based environmental group, Upstream, have their hearts in the right place. We just wish they would get all of their facts straight. The group recently launched a wide-ranging campaign against packaging waste, including a section on what it calls paper-based “consumer” packaging. Upstream defines this as pretty
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Selon une étude du cycle de vie publiée aujourd’hui, la moyenne des produits de carton ondulé fabriqués aux États-Unis a enregistré une importante optimisation environnementale en quatre ans. Les résultats liés au réchauffement climatique montrent une diminution de 32 % par rapport aux résultats d’une étude similaire publiée en 2006. La valorisation des vieux cartons (OCC), passée de
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Le carton ondulé, bien entendu. Le joyau du centre historique de Christchurch, en Nouvelle-Zélande, une cathédrale gothique tout en pierre, a été gravement endommagé lors du tremblement de terre de 2011, une catastrophe qui a causé la mort de 185 personnes. La cathédrale a temporairement été remplacée par une version faite en carton ondulé conçue
Qu’ont en commun une cathédrale, un meuble et une bicyclette? Read More »
The average US corrugated box has registered significant environmental improvements over a four-year period, according to a life cycle analysis released today. Global warming results were 32% lower than recorded in a similar study undertaken in 2006, mainly because more old corrugated containers (OCC) were diverted from landfill (recovery increasing from 72% to 85%). Also
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Corrugated, of course. The gothic stone cathedral that was the centrepiece of Christchurch, New Zealand, was badly damaged in a 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people and has temporarily been replaced with a corrugated alternative. The triangular prism shape of the 700-capacity cathedral was fashioned around 98 interlocking corrugated tubes set on a concrete base. Japanese
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In the time it takes you to read this sentence, 169 new tree seedlings will have been planted somewhere in a commercial forest in Canada. By the time you get to the bottom of the page that number will have jumped to over 2500. On average, more than a thousand seedlings are launched on a
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Pendant que vous lisez cette phrase, 169 semis d’arbres auront été plantés dans les exploitations forestières canadiennes. Le temps de vous rendre à la fin du présent article, ce nombre sera passé à plus de 2 500. En moyenne, plus de mille semis d’arbres sont mis en terre chaque minute pour assurer la régénérescence du riche couvert forestier
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We were recently invited by the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) to comment on various aspects of extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs that have been, or are being introduced across the country. In the course of preparing our response, we re-read CCME’s Canada-Wide Strategy for Sustainable Packaging. While we have no problems
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