Environmental Information
Corrugated packaging is fully recyclable and is made from a natural and renewable resource. The sustainability of the forestry resource is assured by both commercial and environmental considerations.
In fact forestry management and replanting programmes were in place long before environmental issues gained prominence. In part of Europe and America forest growth rate exceeds that of felling by more than 2 to 1. This ensures future supply and secondly young trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and replace it with oxygen, reversing the 'greenhouse effect'. In America almost one third of the United States is covered by forests. The reality is that hardwoods produced from the endangered tropical forests of the world are unsuitable for the manufacturing of paper.
Corrugated packaging is fully biodegradable and 100% recycleable. In fact over 70% of all corrugated is collected and recycled. Generally corrugated board is one of the more easily recycled materials. Waste corrugated may be recycled over 5 times before its fibre becomes too weak for further use.
- Wood for paper production is from sustainable sources
- The wood is pulped in a paper mill
- Huge reels of paper are produced from new and recycled sources...
- And used to make corrugated packaging
- Corrugated packaging protects goods in transit
- Some packaging is recycled as energy
- The used packaging is collected from stores
- Most of the used packaging is recycled to make new packaging
How environmentally friendly are we?
At CAPS CASES over 80% of the raw material we use has been recycled.
100% of the packaging we manufacture is recyclable and bio degradeable.
The printing inks we use are water based. Our in house treatment plant ensures that the ink pigments in our waste are removed before the remaining water goes back into the system.
100% of our manufacturing waste is recycled.
As members of VALPAK we comply with the Producer Responsibility Obligations (packaging waste) legislation. This legislation is all part of the pan European drive for packaging waste minimisation. This attempts to reduce the sheer volume of packaging being used and then entering the waste channels. The regulations are both complex and demanding on both the producer and consumer of packaging. The legislation does however have clear and specific recovery target for the recycling of various forms of packaging.