High Ontario paper packaging diversion rate

Almost 70 per cent of the paper packaging entering Ontario households was sent for recycling in 2008, according to Stewardship Ontario.

The numbers are released every year and are based on a combination of waste audits of what householders put out for recycling or garbage, and reports by companies on what materials they sell into the residential marketplace.

Old corrugated boxes are now the most widely recovered of all Blue Box materials with an amazing recovery rate of 92 per cent, up 15 percentage points on the previous data year.

The lighter weight boxboard carton, commonly used to deliver cereals and foodstuffs, also does well in the latest survey, increasing its recovery rate from 58 per cent to 65 per cent.

(Source: Solid Waste & Recycling in November 2009 WasteWatch)

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