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Survey Says: Recycled Content a Key Component to Paper Packaging’s Circular Economy

Circular Economy, Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling, Recycled Content, Uncategorized / By John Mullinder

Most boxes and cartons manufactured in Canada are made of recycled content – from old boxes and other used paper material collected from the back of factories, supermarkets, office buildings, and residential Blue Box recycling programs. And there has been a significant increase in average recycled content for paper-based packaging over the years, up from […]

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Ontario’s Blue Box Regulations Reflect PPEC Recommendations, Targets Still a Concern

Blue Box, Extended Producer Responsibility, Paper Recycling, Targets / By John Mullinder

On June 3, 2021, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks released the final Blue Box Regulation. The new regulation sets out a framework to transfer the costs of the blue box program away from local communities and requires the producers to operate and pay for blue box services. PPEC has been actively

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Providing Clarity on The Ottawa Citizen’s Cardboard Recycling Article

1 Comment / Blue Box, Circular Economy, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

Last week, The Ottawa Citizen’s Kelly Egan wrote an article about cardboard recycling in Canada. In Thinking inside the box — pandemic creates crush of new cardboard, Egan provides some stats about paper packaging recycling and the consumption of trees — some of which are correct, and some of which are confusing. Egan reached out

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How about a different approach to recycled content and the circular economy?

1 Comment / Blue Box, Circular Economy, Paper Recycling, Recycled Content / By John Mullinder

Recycled content is the key component in the creation of a circular economy. It keeps raw materials flowing within the economy longer, reduces the pressure to extract more virgin materials from the earth, and delays their eventual disposal as waste. Recovering more materials for further use also creates jobs. A circular economy is something that

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False arguments being used to promote post-consumer recycled content

1 Comment / Circular Economy, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

Don’t get me wrong. I fully support the use of more post-consumer material in packaging and products. Just not some of the BS that goes with it. And this is important because governments are stipulating post-consumer content without knowing all the facts. Here are some of the false claims being made: False Claim # 1:

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Climate change demands that our focus should be on improving paper and organics recovery, not fiddling around with plastic straws

Landfill Bans, Paper Recycling, Waste Diversion / By John Mullinder

Yes, plastic litter (any litter for that matter) and marine pollution is terrible, and we need to have a long hard look at our consumption habits and to reduce our use of fossil fuels. But when we are warned by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we have only 12 years for

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Fighting media ignorance (battle # 5,041)

Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling, Waste Diversion / By John Mullinder

Yes, we know that packaging is evil and that it should be legislated out of existence. But sometimes those ignorant throw-away lines about packaging waste really do rankle and must be corrected. Case in point: a recent article by Eric Reguly in the Globe and Mail newspaper. In his beef with Amazon Prime’s home-delivery service,

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Will plastics problem spur the eventual return of deposits to Ontario?

1 Comment / Blue Box, Paper Recycling, Plastics / By John Mullinder

I love fish. Plastic not so much. This puts me in good company, it seems, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who recently told the World Economic Forum that the “plastics issue” will be the main theme at the G7 leaders’ summit in Charlevoix, Quebec in June. Trudeau’s announcement follows in the footsteps of Coca-Cola saying

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Packaging stewards should be rewarded for using recycled content

1 Comment / Blue Box, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

Recycled content is central to the “Circular Economy” approach that Ontario and some other provinces say they want to adopt. It keeps raw materials flowing through the economy longer, reduces the pressure to extract more virgin materials from the earth, and delays their eventual disposal as waste. It’s something which governments say they want to

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Ontario Blue Box recovery rate slips, but paper steady

Blue Box, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

The reported recovery rate of Ontario’s residential Blue Box system has fallen to its lowest level since 2005. The draft recovery rates, to be finalised by Stewardship Ontario in December, show a 2016 recovery rate of 62.4%, down 2% on the previous year. This will make the recent “request” by Ontario’s minister of environment and

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