REPORTS

In addition to its occasional PPEC News, the council has executive summaries of, or reports on, the following subjects, available upon request.

  • Packaging is not the bad guy - What bugs the packaging industry more than anything else in the continual debate over the role of packaging in society is the virtual lack of recognition of packaging’s overall purpose (to safely and efficiently deliver product) and the fact that most (but not all of it) is perfectly recyclable and/or compostable. What we get instead from the critics is how many tonnes of it (pick a number) are in the waste stream. Learn more...
  • Life cycle analysis of average corrugated box about to be released - The Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) has released a summary of a first-ever cradle-to-cradle life cycle analysis (LCA) of the average US corrugated box. The LCA follows ISO 14040 guidelines including critical review by a panel of experts. The initial public release of the data is intended to populate the US Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) database, the Environmental Protection Agency and the GreenBlue COMPASS tool. The 20-page Summary Report is a downloadable PDF document including graphs and diagrams. Learn more...
  • Cutting through the Greenwash Seminar held April 13th, 2010. Download PDF presentations here.
  • Cutting through the Greenwash Seminar held April 7th, 2009. Download PDF presentations here.
  • Paper Recycling Ontario Seminar - Challenges and Opportunities Seminar held October 1st, 2007.
    Download PDF presentations here
  • CERB Report Card on Ontario's Blue Box (2005) There are critical issues surrounding Ontario's Blue Box that need to be addressed now. This analysis focuses on the Blue Box system, and is structured around five major interrelated themes (the rationale for the Blue Box, efficiency, transparency, fairness, and sustainability). Download the report.
  • Fully Commingled (Single Stream) Recycling Systems: A Summary of Findings (2002). Overhead summary of report by Earth Tech Canada for PPEC on North American commingled (single stream) residential recycling.
  • industry Protocol on Recycled Paper & Paperboard Used in Food Packaging Originally published in 1994. Updated every year.
  • Facts About Paper-Based Packaging (1994 updated to 2000) rimary source for information on paper-based packaging and the environment. Covers why packaging exists, changes in packaging over time, the paper fibre resource, what paper-based packaging is made from, types of packaging, how packaging is made, where packaging is made, Canadian shipments and imports, where packaging ends up, and a variety of facts and figures. Industry Canada Website.
  • Costs of Corrugated and Re-usable Plastic Shipping Containers for the Ontario Fresh Produce Industry (1996) FIRST Consulting Group profiles the logistics of the Ontario fresh produce industry and compares costs for corrugated and plastic systems.
  • Activity-Based Costing: Implications for Curbside Recycling Systems (1995) This ground-breaking study by FIRST Consulting Group was the first to apply a widely accepted accounting method to the costs of diverting residential recyclables from curbside.
  • Composting of Waxed Corrugated and Post-Household Boxboard Container Waste (1992). Executive Summary available of this pioneering study performed by McGill University.
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