Carton and Cardboard
Carton and cardboard recycling includes all the different types of paper, carton and cardboard packages collected from households, institutional households and offices.
Carton and Cardboard Collections MAY CONTAIN:
- carton packages for liquids, such as milk and juice cartons, including those with aluminium lining.
- carton, cardboard and paper packages of dry products, such as cereal and biscuit cartons, sugar and flour bags, cake and egg cartons, multi-pack cartons for beverages, for instance the so-called six-packs
- pizza boxes, also including slightly greasy ones.
- empty paper rolls, such as toilet paper rolls
- plastic-coated wrapping papers, such as copy paper wrapping
- all kinds of paper bags
- corrugated cardboard boxes
Rinse out dirty liquid packages and let them drip dry.
Flatten the packages and fold them into each other. It is not necessary to remove rivets, paper clips or packaging tape stripes.
Carton and Cardboard Collections MAY NOT CONTAIN:
- dirty and unrinsed packages
- plastic bags and containers
- styrox
- coated gift wrappings with a great deal of printed ink and tape stripes.
What Happens to Carton and Cardboard
Recycling carton and cardboard are processed into fibre pulp which is suitable for recycling. The aluminium lining of liquid packages, for instance in juice cartons, is separated for reuse purposes for metals and the plastic coating is reused as energy. The reclamation of fibre packages, in other words their re-use as raw material in new products and energy, comprised 95 % in Finland in 2007 (Source: The Environmental Register of Packaging PYR Ltd).
Carton and cardboard collection and its reuse belong to the responsibilities of the producer.