Paper Producers Beat the Circularity Drum

Recycling Today (09/04/23) Taylor, Brian

Trade associations representing paperboard makers continue to make their case for paperboard packaging as having achieved circularity. As companies that make and use plastic packaging start to invest to improve their recycling rates, producers of paperboard packaging have put together some convincing public relations campaigns that tout the material’s already established recycling loops. According to the Brussels-based Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI), European mills -- even while making less overall product in an energy-starved business climate -- consumed a higher percentage of Europe’s collected recovered fiber in 2022 than in years prior. CEPI officials say 96 percent of European paper for recycling was consumed by European paper and board mills.

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