Their product, called the "Bevelope," can be adjusted to accommodate everything from DVD cases to thick software manuals and is made from recycled paperboard that can be recycled again or composted.
Still, it derived more than 90percentt of its $17.8 billion in revenue last year from lumber, paperboard and other highly cyclical commodity papers.
This paper presents an experimental investigation dealing with the valorization of micro vegetable fibers resulting from recycled paperboard in self-compacting concrete (SCC) and its equivalent mortar (CEM).
Frugalpac's cups, which are made from recycled paperboard, contain no waterproofing chemicals – so the cup's food-grade liner separates easily during the standard recycling process, allowing it to be disposed of in any recycling bin.
But as Donna Berry, an editor at Dairy Foods magazine notes, "What kid wants to drink from that paperboard carton you were forced to in school?" Thus the new single-serve, clear-plastic containers that fit into car cup holders and have resealable tops.
The authors noted that inner liners made of aluminum-coated foil were much more effective than coated paper at blocking the migration of phthalates from recycled paperboard packaging.
Your daily routine has many close encounters with food packaging: For breakfast, cereal from a paperboard box and a can of energy drink.
Australia is a net importer in forest products of around $2 billion per annum, comprising mostly imports of paper and paperboard from China and sawn timber from New Zealand.
At Home Depot, Husky tools are going from clamshell to paperboard packaging, and EcoSmart LED bulbs are about to be sold in a corrugated box, rather than a larger plastic case.
International Paper officials said that the paper industry, more than the plastic industry, had well-developed recycling systems in place and that separating polyethylene from the bleached paperboard in the recycling process was not cumbersome.
