Shrink: Paper Efficiency Project PEP Talk Packaging

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Shrink Paper Efficiency ProjectPEP
TalkPackaging
shrinkpaper.org

• Mandy Haggith - hag_at_environmentalpaper.eu
• Jane Skelton - Jane.Skelton_at_sainsburys.co.uk

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European Environmental Paper Network
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Common Vision

• The Environmental Paper Networks in Europe and
  North America (gt 100 NGOs) have a shared Vision
  for Transforming the Pulp and Paper Industry
• Reduce consumption
• Reduce reliance on virgin forest fibre
• Ensure social responsibility
• Source fibre responsibly
• Ensure clean production

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We want to protect this
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from becoming this
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and minimise this.
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Main impacts of paper-making

• Climate Change
• Forest Destruction
• Energy Use
• Waste
• Water Use
• Pollution
• Plantations
• Illegal Logging
• Human Rights Abuses

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The shrink project (2012-13)

• 60 UK organisations being assessed and urged to
  take action on paper efficiency, 10 each of
• Supermarkets
• Catalogue retailers
• Financial firms
• Utilities (gas, phone etc)
• Governmental bodies
• Universities
• The scorecard will be published in July 2013
• New website, more paper saving case studies
• Motivational seminars and PEP talks
• Paper Utility, Paper vs Digital and Packaging
• Paper Vapour (paper and climate change), 9 July,
  London

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Packaging some starting points

• Lets make one thing clear from the start the
  Shrink project is not advocating that companies
  should shift from paper to plastics or other
  materials, unless by doing so they can prove they
  have reduced their ecological footprint.
• Packaging has many functions
• it keeps good safe from breakages and
  contamination,
• it enables them to be more easily transported,
• it attracts customers to them
• it conveys information.
• Smart design maintains these functions while
  maximising efficiency.

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Packaging a big opportunity for paper efficiency

• Almost half of Europes paper consumption is
  packaging.
• Global annual sector CO2e emissions from paper
  are 2500 MTonnes - 8 of global emissions (from
  Climate for Ideas).
• Reducing packaging could produce really
  substantial carbon emission reductions, helping
  to deliver the UK target of cuts of 34 by 2020.

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Case study 1 Patagonia

• Used to pack their thermal baselayers (long johns
  and vests) in cellophane and paper packets.
• They shifted to sushi rolls with just a
  cardboard sash. They saved tonnes of waste and
  sales rocketed because customers could feel what
  they were buying.
• The original packaging was getting between the
  customer and the product.

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Case study 2 Hewlett Packard

• They redesigned printer transportation packaging,
  replacing cardboard boxes with heavy internal
  buffering by re-usable shelving units wrapped in
  thin see-through plastic.
• Packaging volume was reduced by gt 90.
• Breakages in transit reduced by 5, because
  people handling them could see that what is
  inside is fragile.
• By taking away the package, you can reduce damage
  to the contents.

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Case study 3 Duchy Originals

• They redesigned their chocolate boxes, to reduce
  the weight of the packaging by 48. This
  efficiency produced a sleeker, higher quality
  appearance product.

They saved 8.9 tonnes of packaging, saving 231
trees, 890,000 litres of water, 58 tonnes of
carbon emissions and 10.7 tonnes of other air,
water and solid pollution.
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Thanks for listening and for caring about your
impact on the environment! More information
on packaging herehttp//shrinkpaper.org/packagin
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http//c.environmentalpaper.org/home Were
happy to answer any questions you may have.