SUSTAINABILITY: Cartonboard & Cartons Life Cycle, Forest Management, Cartonboard & Carton Production, Recycling, Energy & Water Resources, Carbon Footprint.

Infographics 4: Leaders in Renewable Energy

Pro Carton has designed a series of striking infographics to demonstrate the sustainability of cartonboard packaging. Here is the fourth in the series.

Paper packaging adds ambition

Pro Carton together with other European paper based packaging associations, has created an Infographic to illustrate our industry’s vision of an ambitious Circular Economy.

Infographics 3: Pro Carton’s carbon footprint

Pro Carton has designed a series of striking infographics to demonstrate the sustainability of cartonboard packaging. Here is the third in the series.

Infographics 2: Forests and Cartonboard

Pro Carton has designed a series of striking infographics to demonstrate the sustainability of cartonboard packaging. Here is the second in the series.

New series of Infographics about Cartons

Pro Carton has produced a series of eye-catching Infographics to illustrate the sustainability of cartonboard packaging.

Re-imagining business

"We don't just have to get better, we need to be really good“, said Tim "Mac“ Macartney at the ECMA Pro Carton Congress: only one hundred per cent sustainability in all areas will change the future.

Cartons: a perfect example of the Circular Economy

The concept of the Circular Economy is to optimise the use of natural resources by encouraging recycling, eco-design and waste prevention, among other measures: Cartonboard packaging, is at the forefront of putting these aims into practice.

Sustainable European paper and board industry

CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) has published its latest report on the sustainability of the European pulp, paper and board industries. It shows that the whole industry, including cartonboard packaging, is focusing on innovation and resource efficiency while advancing the bio-based economy.

New Technology – new Pro Carton website

Consumer behaviour is changing as more consumers adopt a digital life-style. In this context, packaging plays a very important role in transmitting quality and brand values of a product, first on a screen and then at home when the physical product is delivered.Consumer behaviour is changing as more consumers adopt a digital life-style. In this context, packaging plays a very important role in transmitting quality and brand values of a product, first on a screen and then at home when the physical product is delivered. Today, Pro Carton launches a new website which shows how cartonboard packaging is the ideal medium for this role, by enabling intelligent packaging solutions which are creative and innovative, on a sustainable substrate.

Comparing the latest ISO specifications with Pro Carton’s carbon footprint

ISO/TS 14067 – “Carbon Footprint of Products: Requirements and Guidelines for Quantification and Communication”, was released in May. It was intended to be an ISO Standard but after years of discussion, it evolved into a Technical Specification and will be reviewed in around three years time.
Pro Carton’s published carbon footprint figure of 915 kg CO2eq / tonne of cartons* is based on a methodology developed by the paper and board industry in 2007 with reference to international standards, so Pro Carton decided to see how its current methodology compares to the new specifications.

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25 years Pro Carton: looking into the future

For 25 years, Pro Carton has been tasked with communicating the benefits of cartonboard and cartons. The entire Packaging Supply Chain is supplied with current information and studies. The anniversary was the occasion for a festive gala evening on 19. September in Dubrovnik, at which President Roland Rex looked at the coming 25 years.

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The sustainability of packaging in the retail trade

Guido Fuchs is Project Manager Sustainability at the Coop Genossenschaft in Basel with a focus on sustainability in the non-food segment, the sustainability of packaging, recycling and waste. As an expert on sustainability in the retail trade he has made a name for himself well beyond the borders of Switzerland. Pro Carton spoke to him about his objectives.


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