The Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) has announced the results of its 16th biennial Recycled Content Survey. Every two years, PPEC surveys Canadian paper mills about their paper packaging import and export shipments, to determine the average recycled content used to make paper-based packaging products in Canada. The average recycled content of domestic Canadian shipments of the three major packaging grades — containerboard (used to make corrugated boxes), boxboard (used to make boxboard cartons), and kraft paper (used to make paper bags) — is 81.7 percent, according to the 2020 survey, up from 73.5 percent in 2018. The average has steadily increased from 47 percent in 1990, when PPEC first started collecting recycled content data from Canadian paper mills.
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