{"id":31365,"date":"2020-02-26T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=31365"},"modified":"2020-02-26T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:17:15","slug":"beverage-carton-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/getraenkekarton-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Better eco-balance: study recommends beverage cartons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a life cycle assessment carried out by c7-consult, beverage cartons for chilled milk are more climate-friendly than disposable and reusable glass bottles.<\/p>\n<p>People who want to think about the environment when buying chilled milk continue to buy milk in cartons with a clear conscience. This is the conclusion of the study <strong>\u201eLife cycle assessment of milk packaging\u201c<\/strong> which the <strong>Institute c7-consult on behalf of Getr\u00e4nkekarton Austria<\/strong> has carried out. It compared the disposable and reusable glass bottles, PET bottles and composite cartons for chilled milk available in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>In the final report of the study <strong>Roland Fehringer, expert in the life cycle assessment of beverage packaging<\/strong>\u00a0points out that \u201efrom an ecological point of view, the composite beverage carton is one of the most climate-friendly packaging solutions.\u201c As part of the life cycle assessment, the entire <strong>The packaging journey from raw material extraction to transport and recycling<\/strong> analysed.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-3186431501\"><div id=\"packa-1039157599\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PJ Self-promotion English 03\"><!--noptimize--><img src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png 840w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-332x83.png 332w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-664x166.png 664w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-688x172.png 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" width=\"840\" height=\"210\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><!--\/noptimize--><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>In all impact categories<\/strong> According to the study, the beverage carton for chilled milk has significantly better values than the other containers available in Austria. In the climate change category - the environmental impact with the highest priority - the beverage carton in Austria achieves a <strong>ecological footprint of 88g CO2 equivalents per packaging<\/strong> (1 litre), well ahead of the non-returnable glass bottle (336g), returnable glass bottle (115g) and non-returnable PET bottle (117g).<\/p>\n<h2><b>Renewable raw material<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The use of the <strong>renewable raw material wood<\/strong> in cartonboard production brings the decisive plus points here, because renewable raw materials take up less energy during their growth phase. <strong>CO2 from the atmosphere<\/strong>. In contrast, fossil raw materials release CO2 into the atmosphere during their utilisation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eWe have already been part of a functioning circular economy for a long time,\u201c says <strong>Georg Matyk<\/strong> from Getr\u00e4nkekarton Austria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Milk packaging made of cardboard has clear advantages: They protect the product from light and oxygen. They are lightweight, easy to stack and ideal for transport and storage. After use, beverage cartons are simply <strong>in the yellow bag or yellow bin<\/strong> collected and then sent to the sorting plants of the Austrian waste disposal companies for recycling. <strong>Recycling process in cartonboard mills<\/strong> provided separately.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Beverage carton Austria<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a life cycle assessment carried out by c7-consult, beverage cartons for chilled milk are more climate-friendly than disposable and reusable glass bottles.","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":24472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[111,22],"tags":[65,48,31,1487],"class_list":{"0":"post-31365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-maerkte","8":"category-packmittel-und-packstoffe","9":"tag-abfalltechnik-und-recycling","10":"tag-getraenke","11":"tag-nachhaltigkeit-und-green-packaging","12":"tag-papier-pappe-karton","13":"cs-entry","14":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}