Bottoms up: EU drinks carton recycling rate pushes past 45 per cent mark

BusinessGreen staff
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European paper mills continue to lap up drinks cartons with 430,000 tonnes recycled at 20 facilities in 2016

Europe is now recycling almost half its cardboard drinks cartons as progressing on cutting waste within the trading bloc continues. The recycling rate for cardboard drinks cartons hit 47 per cent in...

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