Circular Economy

Everything you wanted to know about paper packaging

Blue Box, Canada's Forests, Circular Economy, Compostable, Corrugated Boxes, Paper Bags, Paper Packaging, Recycled Content / By

PPEC’s popular fact sheets have been revamped and updated, all 34 of them. Broken into five sections of interest, the factsheets cover a broad range of topics: from why packaging exists to where it comes from (trees); from what it’s made from to how it’s made; and to the industry’s history of reduction, re-use, and […]

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Ontario Blue Box recovery rate slips again, but paper’s steady

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The recovery rate of Ontario’s residential Blue Box system has slipped again, to its lowest level since 2005. According to Stewardship Ontario, the 2017 recovery rate was 61.3 per cent, down almost two per cent on the previous year. The provincial target is 60 per cent. Almost three-quarters of what’s currently being recovered is paper

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