Cradle-To-Cradle Design

Packaging Minus the Waste
   
We design your packaging with the entire product life cycle in mind
   

Containerboard from International Paper is:
  • Made from 100% renewable forest fiber procured in accordance with SFI® standards and recycled fiber.
  • Manufactured with over 70% biomass energy that reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Corrugated packaging from International Paper is:
  • Engineered from strong 100% renewable fiber.  Combined with our advanced technology and approach to design, this reduces the amount of packaging material required to achieve optimal strength, reducing total supply chain costs.  (Ask about our optimization tool: Box Compression Test Pro™.)
  • Often shelf-ready, designed to reduce the need for repackaging and to minimize waste.
  • Reusable as packaging and recoverable for recycling into new packaging and other paper products.

 

WHERE DO OLD CORRUGATED CONTAINERS GO?
Recovered fiber in the U.S. is effectively used in many paper and packaging products.

 Containerboard (61.4%)
 Net Exports (19.0%)
 Recycled Paperboard (16.2%)
 Packaging & Industrial Converting (1.5%)
 Tissue (0.7%)
 All Other (1.2%)

Source: Paper Industry Association Council

  

 

Sustainable Packaging Defined

  • Is beneficial, safe & healthy for individuals and communities throughout its life cycle
  • Meets market criteria for performance and cost.
  • Is sourced, manufactured, transported, and recycled using renewable energy.
  • Maximizes the use of renewable or recycled source materials
  • Is manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices.
  • Is made from materials healthy in all probable end-of-life scenarios.
  • Is physically designed to optimize materials and energy.
  • Is effectively recovered and utilized in biological and/or industrial cradle-to-cradle cycles.

 

 

Did You Know?Over 75% of all corrugated packaging used in the U.S. is recovered for recycling?

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