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Stora Enso receives sustainability award from Tetra Pak

Stora Enso has been honoured by Tetra Pak with the Sustainability Award. This recognises the company's efforts in the area of sustainability and environmental protection. The two companies also look back on joint projects aimed at reducing emissions along the entire value chain.

Stora Enso has been honoured with the award for the best circular solution. This is one of three sustainability awards that Tetra Pak presented to its suppliers on 3 December. The award recognises Stora Enso's performance in the circular economy and its significant achievements in recycling beverage cartons. Earlier this year, Stora Enso and Tetra Pak announced their collaboration on a circular economy packaging initiative that will triple the recycling capacity for used beverage cartons (UBC) in Poland, including the country's total UBC volume and overflow from neighbouring countries.

In 2020, Tetra Pak launched its „Join Us in Protecting the Planet“ sustainability initiative for suppliers to Promote progress by its suppliers in the areas of climate, biodiversity and the circular economy. It also emphasises the need for joint action to achieve the Corporate goal of generating net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations by 2030, underline.

Sustainability award honours promotion of recycling

Against this background Stora Enso honoured for its commitment to the circular economy and on 3 December as part of a virtual ceremony with the Supplier Award for Circularity 2021 honoured. The co-operation with Tetra Pak at the Stora Enso production facility in Ostrołęka (Poland) led to a Complete concept for the recycling of all beverage carton components, including wood fibres and barrier layers. Projects like these are key to achieving sustainability goals and promoting recycling on a large scale.

„We are honoured to receive this award as it is an important recognition of Tetra Pak's significant contribution to the circular economy in packaging in Europe and around the world. The close partnership with Tetra Pak continues to inspire us, as we share very similar, deeply rooted values in the area of sustainability. We look forward to realising our investment in Ostrołęka and continuing to learn from our joint efforts.“

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Markku Luoto, VP, Head of Aseptic LPB & CKB

Combining the same goals

In addition, Stora Enso recently new targets for its key sustainability priorities in the areas of climate change, biodiversity and the circular economy announced. This includes an updated, scientifically based target, the Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in areas 1, 2 and 3 by 50 per cent by 2030, based on a base year of 2019. The company is therefore in line with Tetra Pak, which has also set targets for emissions reductions by 2030 that are in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) for scopes 1, 2 and 3, with the aim of reducing emissions along the entire value chain to zero by 2050.

„I am confident that the major industrial project recently announced by Tetra Pak and Stora Enso will be successful, thanks to the common goal that drives our project team. Together we want to Drastically increasing the recycling rate of beverage cartons in Poland. We hope that our joint investment will trigger Poland's decision to make the collection of beverage cartons for recycling a legal requirement.“
Christine Levêque, VP Collection and Recycling, Tetra Pak

Source: Stora Enso