Paperboard Recycling Statistics Continue to Increase
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In celebration of America Recycles Day on November 15, Packaging Digest, Oak Brook, Ill., USA, took stock of the latest recycling statistics for packaging materials, including a special focus on paperboard packaging.
The report found that more than 63% of all paper and paperboard materials—including packages such as cartons and boxes—were recovered for recycling in 2013, according to The Paper Recycling Coalition Inc. This number has nearly doubled since 1990.
Access to recycling has helped. According to the Paperboard Packaging Council (Springfield, Mass.), 96% of the U.S. population can now recycle paper and paperboard through curbside or drop-off recycling programs. The PPC also reports that paper-based packaging accounts for 71% of the nearly 27 million tons of packaging materials recovered for recycling, based on recently released numbers from the U.S. EPA (Washington, D.C.).
