{"id":59646,"date":"2022-03-28T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=59646"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:34:56","slug":"prefer-to-recycle-folding-cartons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/faltschachteln-lieber-recyceln\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle rather than compost folding cartons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the compostability of cardboard packaging is increasingly being advertised, the FFI - Fachverband Faltschachtel-Industrie e.V. is now clarifying its point of view: in a fact sheet that provides arguments in favour of recycling and against composting.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Customers from the branded goods industry and retailers are increasingly approaching folding carton manufacturers because they want to advertise and highlight the compostability or biodegradability of their fibre-based packaging on the packaging or in their product advertising for marketing reasons.<\/p>

Attributes such as \u201ecompostability\u201c or \u201ebiodegradability\u201c are intended to convey to the consumer a special \u201enaturalness\u201c of the packaging material that does not harm nature at the end of its useful life.<\/p>

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Fact sheet to clarify<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The FFI<\/a> is of the opinion, however, that the material recycling of used cardboard folding cartons via the waste paper cycle is always preferable to the composting of folding cartons, as the fibre material is retained via the material recycling of the fibres via the waste paper, is reused several times in the cycle and the CO2 present in the wood or waste paper fibres remains bound via the multiple cycles. In contrast, the fibre material is lost from the waste paper cycle during composting and the CO2 bound up to that point is released, which ultimately has a negative impact on the greenhouse effect.<\/p>

Nevertheless, the composting of folding cartons as biological recycling offers an alternative material recycling path.<\/p>