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New technology for fully recyclable paper cups

In case you missed it: catch up on the third in a series from the 2018 Sustainability in Packaging Europe conference.

Sustainability Series 3
Sustainability Series 3

Originally posted 11/9/2018

Finnish company offers a “Game Changer” in the paper cup market.

Consider this fact: more than 500 billion single use disposable coffee cups are produced in one year, many of them plastic. Even paper cups currently produced largely aren’t recyclable, due to the plastic coatings that are used.

Speaking at the Sustainability in Packaging Europe conference in Barcelona last week, Markku Hämäläinen, CEO of Kotkamills, (a company that specializes in product innovations using wood) said that an estimated 8.3 billion metric tons of virgin plastic has been produced to date, and as of 2015, approximately 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste had been generated.

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