Drinks cartons are designed to have a minimum impact on
the environment throughout their lifecycle. They use less
fossil fuel energy in production than other forms of liquid
packaging and are made principally from a renewable source,
being 75-90% paper made from wood grown in sustainable managed
forests.
Grove Fresh juice cartons are recyclable but because they
contain paper, polyethylene and aluminium they cannot be
recycled with normal paper waste due to the process required
to separate the paper fibres.
The paper recovered from drinks cartons has good fibre length
and is valuable to paper mills. It can be used for a wide
range of paper products from stationery, tissue, and Core
board to Kraft paper to Christmas wrapping paper.
Co-ordination and encouragement of recycling projects for
drinks packaging waste is being led on an international
basis by a coalition of ten manufacturers of paperboard
and paper cartons. The Alliance
for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) is
represented in the UK by the Liquid
Food Carton Manufacturers Association (LFCMA) with
environmental, government and industry partners in
the areas of packaging and recycling.
The LFCMA is working with local authorities, waste collectors
and community groups to maximise carton recycling. At the
beginning of 2005, the LFCMA undertook a survey of all 477
local authorities in the UK to determine attitudes towards
the inclusion of cartons in their collections of dry recyclables.
The results have been translated onto maps that can be viewed
by using the link below:
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