What is packaging material guide?
This material guide is designed by UPM to help you make your packaging a hero of circular economy. As the world is looking for ways to mitigate climate change and figure out how to manage resource scarcity, all packaging needs to be designed to be a part of circular economy. This means that the packaging is made of renewable, preferably recycled raw materials, and that packaging itself is recyclable or reusable.
The regulation on packaging, particularly in the EU countries, is getting stricter. We want to help you comply with these changes, be a frontrunner in the circular economy and meet the increasing customer demand for sustainable packaging solutions.
This e-book includes information about recycled plastic materials as well as new bio-attributed materials that are replacing fossil-based plastics and have a lower carbon footprint. It also includes information on barrier papers with technical qualities that have been previously associated with only plastic packaging, and paper labels that are getting increasingly resource-smart.
Content of packaging material guide
- What is packaging material guide?
- Crude tall oil (CTO)
- Renewable naphtha
- Used cooking oils (UCO)
- Bio monoethylene glycols (Bio-MEG)
- Wood pulp
- Ocean bound plastic (OBP)
- Paper labels
- Barrier papers
