The Corrugated Packaging Alliance is hosting an open forum for parties to discuss the corrugated industry’s recently announced, draft recyclability standard and testing protocol for moisture barrier materials. The forum will be held in Rosemont, IL March 21 at 1 p.m. Members of the committee that developed the standard will be on hand for the discussion.
Anyone who would like to have their input considered and discussed at the forum should submit comments prior to March 16 to Hal Tanner, at haltanner@msn.com.
The American Forest & Paper Association and the Fibre Box Association recently announced the release of the draft, voluntary standard to certify that corrugated board or boxes treated to improve performance in the presence of water, or water vapor, are repulpable and recyclable.
The draft document, released for public comment on February 1, 2005, is the product of a joint committee that included box manufacturers, paper mill operators and recycled fiber users.
The committee considered the present state of supply chain issues, including retailer calls for the elimination of non-recyclable containers, and the impacts on the collection and use of treated corrugated in mill systems.
The new draft standard has two test protocol requirements: repulpability and recyclability. The repulpability requirements establish a predictable impact in mill repulping systems, and the recyclability requirements establish predictability in the performance of the recycled content paper products made from the treated material. The new draft standard does not call for treated board or boxes to be separated from the normal OCC recovery stream.