| FC Cartons & Smurfit Kappa keep recycling up |
By: Rebecca Hubbard
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Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011 12:15 pm
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FC Cartons, the UK’s leading provider of gluing, folding and window patching services to the carton, print and packaging industries is returning hundreds of tonnes of waste to the packaging chain every year.
As an ISO 14001 registered company that takes the environmental impact of its operations very seriously, FC Cartons has always been keen to ensure any waste board is returned to the UK’s paper packaging chain. They use a collection service that accommodates the fluctuations in the company's production cycles. Waste board collections can vary from two per month to two or more every week.
“Smurfit Kappa Recycling (the company who carries out the recycling service) has always met our requirements, despite the fact that our waste collection demands constantly change due to the seasonal nature of our business,” said Debra Woodyatt, quality manager and director at FC Cartons.
“Our strategy has always been to take the responsible approach to waste management,” adds Woodyatt. “We are only too well aware that the packaging industry faces criticism from the government, media and the public about the amount of packaging used by manufacturers. We are all very conscious of the impact our business activities have on the environment and want to ensure that we make every effort to minimise that impact.”
Additional ways in which FC Cartons is seeking to further minimise environmental impact and carbon emissions include its encouragement of employees to car share or cycle to work, sourcing environmentally friendly cleaning products and for the last four years they have made a commitment to tree-planting through the Tree Appeal scheme. “For every tonne of waste we produce, we pay for one tree to be planted in forests and managed woodland throughout the East Midlands and we intend to continue to support the scheme,” said Debra Woodyatt. |
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