Paper Packaging Canada Information
News Room
- 75% Residential Recycling Rate for Corrugated
- Paper Packaging Canada elects chairman and officers
- PPEC reports that almost 70% of paper packaging is sent for recycling in Ontario
- Greenwash: The frustrating and dirty world of propaganda
- Canadian paper industry launches new association
- Paper Packaging Canada Gets Proactive in the Corrugate vs. Plastics 'Slowdown'
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Why Packaging Exists
The first form of packaging was probably the earthenware jar used to carry life-giving water to the early cave-dwellers. As primitive societies developed and humans roamed further and further afield, it became necessary to transport food and other items of trade greater and greater distances, and to protect those products from damage and contamination. Jute sacks and animal skins provided convenient means of packaging. Learn more...
Packaging Changes
Packaging is constantly evolving to meet changing social, economic and environmental needs. One such need is to service a growing world population. More mouths to feed usually means more packaging required. On the other hand, packaging acts to reduce the sickness and disease that is often associated with non-packaged food in less well developed countries and, indeed, saves food waste.
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Trees and Packaging
The Canadian pulp and paper industry grapples with two broad public misconceptions: that Canada is somehow “running out of trees” and that every time we need new packaging the industry just grabs a chainsaw and heads for the forest. Learn more...
Sustainable Packaging
There are many definitions of sustainability (let alone sustainable packaging), which makes it rather difficult to determine what is and isn't "sustainable." However, there is general consensus that sustainability is a three-legged stool, comprising environmental responsibility, economic viability and social desirability. All three need to be weighed equally to achieve true sustainability.
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Human Resources, Health and Safety, Manufacturing
The association’s HR, Health & Safety, Manufacturing Committee has a full slate of work ahead of it. An HR section has been created on the website, giving participating member companies instant access to almost 60 different labour agreements with plant workers across the country.
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Industry Statistics
Paper Packaging Canada offers a wide range of industry statistics to both its mill and converter members (monthly data on shipments of corrugated boxes, wrappers, sheets, linerboard and corrugating medium, imports and exports, and inventories). It is currently reviewing all its offerings with a view to determining what it makes public (on its website and through press releases), what it shares with associate members, and what will be accessible to members only.
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Factsheets
- What have shirt collars and cuffs got to do with corrugated?
- There's a lot more to corrugated than meets the eye.
- Versatility: a shipping box, a merchandising display, a pallet, even furniture!
- Humble brown has gone high-tech.
- Eye-catching, full colour graphics.
- Industry offers modular stacking system to reduce costs.
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