European database for cartonboard and carton production, 2023

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45 the mill per tonne of virgin cartonboard and a 7% reduction in fossil carbon dioxide emissions arising at the mill per tonne of recycled cartonboard • Fossil carbon dioxide emissions from fuels consumed at converting operations have been reduced by 38% in 2021 compared to 2018. • Total water input per tonne of recycled cartonboard is reduced by 33% from 14.43 m 3 per tonne to 9.73 m 3 per tonne. • There has been an improvement in efficiency of board use at the converting plants. In 2021, 1.169 tonnes of cartonboard were required to produce 1 tonne of cartons, compated to 1.245 tonnes of cartonboard per tonne of cartons required in 2018. Sustainable forest management There is currently no life cycle impact assessment methodology for biodiversity impacts of forest management to produce primary fibres for fibre-based products. Nevertheless, biodiversity impacts are an essential element of forest industry products. Sustainable forest management practices have been developed to protect and maintain the ecosystem services in managed forests and plantations. The voluntary sustainable forest management certification schemes have been designed to address relevant practices that help protect ecosystem services such as biodiversity or those that are impacted by land use and their implementation has been verified through an accredited, independent third party. These practices set a proxy for mitigating land use impacts and protecting biodiversity. The data collection revealed that >80% of the pulp wood used for the production of cartonboard by the companies returning the survey was certified as being sourced from sustainable managed forests. Predominantly, primary fibres are FSC or PEFC certified. A similar proportion of the purchased pulp is also certified and third party verified as being sourced from sustainable managed forests. Details of the specific countries of origin and species of wood used are not provided in this report. The data provided by incomplete and when reviewed it was not deemed representative of the complete situation. Conclusions This report presents the gate-to-gate life cycle inventories for the production of cartonboard, manufactured primarily from primary fibres, the production of cartonboard manufactured primarily from recovered fibres, the conversion of cartonboard into blank cartons, (including die cutting, creasing, printing and where applicable folding/gluing) and an aggregated dataset, which considers the production of cartonboard and the conversion of this cartonboard into cartons. The datasets represent the weighted average European situation for each of the processes according to the market and technology situation in 2021. The datasets are based on primary data collected directly from the mills and convertors operating the processes. Participation in the surveys for cartonboard production was high, with a significant increase in the number of sites participating and the proportion of European production covered. Participation in the survey for carton converting was also significant, with data received from twenty-five converting sites. Although this was fewer sites compared to the © RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
46 previous survey in 2018, the share of European production covered by the participating convertors represented an increase in coverage with a good geographical spread in participation. For this reason, there can be a high degree of confidence that the data is representative of technologies applied across Europe, and therefore representative of the environmental profile of the sector. © RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
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Page 5 and 6: 5 Foreword Pro Carton, the European
Page 7 and 8: 7 Executive summary This report is
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Page 13 and 14: 13 Figure 2 Typical layout of a car
Page 15 and 16: 15 For those paper mills producing
Page 18 and 19: 17 System boundaries for carton pro
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Page 28 and 29: 25 Material outputs The main output
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Page 32 and 33: 29 Emissions to air Emissions from
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Page 50 and 51: 47 Peer review The study presented
Page 52 and 53: 49 Annex 1: Peer review statement
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