An increase in the use of recycling in the corrugated products industry has allowed it to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an astonishing 32% between 2006 and 2010, according to a report issued recently by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance.<\/p>\n
The first-ever life cycle assessment, which was conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, examined the environmental impacts of a 1 kg industry-average corrugated product manufactured in 2010 compared to the same product manufactured four years earlier. The study also saw a 22% decrease in the effects of nutrients released on receiving waters and soils and a 14% decrease in the effects of particular matter emissions and respiratory effects.<\/p>\n
Much of the improvement is due to the wider use of recycling, according to the report<\/a>. The recovery rate for old corrugated containers increased from 72% in 2006 to 85% in 2010. The more corrugated materials that are recovered, the less goes to landfills reducing methane emission.<\/p>\n Corrugated products manufacturing facilities also contributed to the decrease in environmental impact by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by cutting overall use of fossil fuels and switching to less carbon-intensive fuels like natural gas.<\/p>\n The study examined the relative impact of industry-average corrugated products, which contain 46% recycled fiber, and 100% recycled corrugated products manufactured in 2010. It looked at seven environmental impact indicators: Global warming potential, eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, and fossil fuel depletion. It also looked at four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An increase in the use of recycling in the corrugated products industry has allowed it to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an astonishing 32% between 2006 and 2010, according to a report issued recently by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance. The first-ever life cycle assessment, which was conducted by the National Council for Air and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}