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A Buyer's Guide to Recycled-Content Paperboard GREENER CARTONS: A BUYER’S GUIDE TO RECYCLED-CONTENT PAPERBOARD By THE ALLIANCE for ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION Thanks to its versatility, durability, and relatively significant environmental benefits, major low cost, paperboard packages everything from consumer product industries (e.g. dry foods, home carryout food to pharmaceuticals, cereal to and personal care products) have largely switched hardware. U.S. paperboard production for folding to recycled. In fact, more than half of the cartons increased 30% during the 1990’s, to 6.8 products on supermarket shelves are now million tons annually (Fig. 1). packaged in recycled paperboard.1 But other major sectors, including food service, medicines, Fig. 1: Growth in U.S. paperboard production for cosmetics, and tobacco continue to use mostly folding cartons, 1989-99 (millions of tons) 100% virgin bleached paperboard, at significant 7 economic and environmental costs. 6.5 BETTER PAPERBOARD OPTIONS: COATED RECYCLED BOARD (CRB) 6 U.S. annual production capacity for CRB folding 5.5 cartons increased by 440,000 tons in the 1990’s.2 At the same time, technological advances have 5 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 dramatically improved the quality of 100% recycled paperboard. While the specifications of Source: 2000 Pulp & Paper Factbook recycled board vary from mill to mill, the best CRB matches SBS on key attributes such as But in terms of cost and the environment, all brightness, smoothness, and basis weight.3 paperboard is not the same. Paperboard with postconsumer recycled content is a high quality, A Sample of Consumer Products in cost-competitive packaging option with Recycled Content Paperboard Packaging significantly lower environmental impacts than Warner Bros. videos and DVDs (30%*) virgin board. Excedrin® (35%*) Comtrex® (35%*) Three major types of paperboard are used for Celebrex® (35%*) consumer goods: coated recycled board (CRB), Clairol Natural Instincts® Haircolor (30%*) solid bleached sulfate (SBS), or coated unbleached Colgate® toothpaste (35%*) Hewlett-Packard printer cartridges (50%*) kraft (CUK). CRB is made from 100% recovered Kodak film boxes (75%*) paper and usually contains a minimum of 35% Most brands of cereals, crackers, cookies postconsumer materials. In addition, several (typically 35%*) manufacturers produce board that combines outer UPS overnight shipping envelopes (80%*) layers of SBS with an inner layer of postconsumer *minimum postconsumer recycled content recycled materials. 1Source: 2000 Pulp & Paper Factbook 2Source: 2000 Pulp & Paper Factbook Given recent dramatic improvements in the 3Based on product specifications provided by paperboard manufacturers quality, variety, and availability of recycled content and the Recycled Paperboard Technical Association. paperboard, as well as its competitive pricing and 1 Alliance interviews with packaging engineers even given the sometimes higher basis weight and converters suggest that, with test runs and (density) of CRB and even if the virgin board is equipment optimization, run speeds with CRB compared to a higher caliper (thicker) recycled typically match those with SBS, and excellent board. Thus, consumer product companies have print quality can be achieved. an excellent opportunity to cut their paperboard packaging costs even using the best quality CRB, CRB is now available in calipers from 12-38 pts. which is competitive with SBS on key and with a variety of topside and backside performance specifications and capable of coatings. The typical topside coating is a replacing SBS in many packaging applications. combination of clay, latex, and titanium that provides excellent printability and brightness. BETTER PAPERBOARD OPTIONS: SBS The major grades include newsback, which is WITH RECYCLED CONTENT made with recycled newsprint, typically has a gray backside, and packages a variety of At least four North American manufacturers consumer products; and kraft back or solid kraft, offer paperboard with outer layers of SBS and an which are typically made with recycled inner layer of recycled material. The corrugated boxes, have a brown to beige postconsumer recycled content for these boards backside, and greater strength. Recycled boards ranges from 10-35%. Technical specifications that use a layer of high-grade recycled materials are very similar or identical to those for SBS. and clay coating to create a bright white backside Based on Alliance interviews with converters and are also available. Because their mills are smaller packaging engineers, some of these virgin/ and more adaptable, recycled paperboard recycled paperboards perform almost identically suppliers can also custom-manufacture to SBS in terms of runnability, print quality, and paperboard for particular packaging needs. other factors. These boards are currently being used in high-end packaging for videos, software, Over the past twenty years, CRB has ranged haircolor, greeting cards, and other products. from 25 to 40% less expensive than virgin board The cost of the virgin/recycled boards ranges per ton (Fig. 2). This price advantage holds up from 10% less to 9% more than SBS. Fig. 2: Prices for major types of folding RECYCLED PAPERBOARD LOOKS GOOD carton paperboard, 1980-2000 TO CONSUMERS 1000 In addition to the potential cost savings, 900 switching to recycled-content paperboard may 800 SBS also earn you points with customers. In a 1998 4 700 CUK national survey of shoppers , 63% of respondents 600 CRB rated the attractiveness and perceived quality of ($/ton) 500 recycled paperboard packages as the same or 400 better than virgin packages. While most 300 consumers could not see a difference between 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 00 these packaging types, they clearly had a far more favorable view of companies who use recycled packaging. CRB and CUK = 20 pt. caliper board; SBS = 16 pt. caliper board. Prices not adjusted for inflation. Source: Pulp and __________________________ Paper Week as cited in the 2000 Pulp & Paper Factbook 4Source: Survey by Leflein Assoc. for the Recycled Paperboard Alliance 2 According to the survey: Fig. 3: Some environmental benefits of adding • 61% were more inclined to purchase products 35% postconsumer recycled material to SBS from a company that uses recycled paperboard packaging Net ) Greenhouse • 77% felt better about a company that uses Gases (CO2 Wastewater Trees Hazardous Air Total Energy Equivalents) Quantity Solid Waste consumed Pollutants recycled paperboard in its product packaging 0% • 80% felt they were "doing something good -5% for the environment" when they bought -10% -15% -15% products packaged in recycled paperboard -20% -20% packaging -25% -26% • 85% believed that using recycled paperboard -30% -35% -32% -35% -35% in packaging will "make a better future for Reduction in environmental impacts (% -40% your children." Source: Alliance calculations updating Paper Task Force RECYCLED-CONTENT PAPERBOARD: AN ENVIRONMENTAL WINNER Dramatic reductions in environmental impacts would result if any of the major consumer Given the huge amount of paperboard that is product sectors still using mostly virgin produced and discarded in the U.S., paperboard were to switch to recycled-content incorporating recycled content into paperboard board. As one example, Fig. 4 shows some of can have important environmental benefits. the environmental benefits of incorporating 35% Compared to 100% virgin board, paperboard postconsumer recycled material into the 375,000 with postconsumer recycled content uses less tons of virgin bleached paperboard used annually wood, energy and water, reduces emissions of for U.S. medicines and cosmetics. greenhouse gases and air and water pollutants, Fig. 4: Benefits of Switching to 35% and cuts the amount of trash sent to incinerators Postconsumer Recycled Content for Medicine and landfills. and Cosmetics Cartons (based on 375,000 tons annual usage) Fig. 3 shows the reductions in environmental Annual Benefit: Annual Equivalent impacts from adding 35% postconsumer recycled 156,000 tons of CO2 emissions from greenhouse gas 27,000 cars driven 200 material to virgin bleached board. Postconsumer emissions avoided miles a week materials are products that have served their (CO2 equivalents) intended end use and would otherwise be thrown Wastewater reduced by Wastewater from away, whereas preconsumer materials are 2.6 billion gallons 27,000 households manufacturing scrap. Environmentally, 510,000 fewer tons of Trees required to make postconsumer recycled content is what matters trees used the copy paper used by 11 million people most. (Switching from unbleached virgin 106,000 tons of solid Trash generated by paperboard (CUK) to recycled content board waste avoided 49,000 households also provides significant environmental savings; Source: Alliance calculations updating Paper Task Force the Alliance can provide more detailed information.) 3 Leading Consumer Products Companies on Recycled Paperboard “By switching to recycled paperboard, we were able to improve the environmental performance of our express packaging while maintaining appearance and preserving performance at equal or better cost.” --David Guernsey, UPS Environmental Affairs "As with many packaging changes, when you switch to recycled paperboard you have to get some experience with the new material, do test runs, and make adjustments to the equipment. We run recycled paperboard just as fast as virgin paperboard. Our shipping tests show that recycled board is just as strong. As for appearance, we've been using recycled
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