Re: Cardboard

["VIC YOUNG" <Vic_Young@owr.ehnr.state.nc.us>]

Noel:
Not an immediate answer but some Region IV manufacturers have(at our 
suggestion) started the ball rolling by requesting that their 
suppliers ship product to them in "recycled cardboard" boxes.  This 
helps to establish a continuing demand for the scrap cardboard.  
perhaps the Grocery trade association could make this happen.
Vic Young

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Date:          Fri, 7 Feb 97 17:07:23 +0100
From:          "Noel Duffy" <nduffy@cleansun.rtc-cork.ie>
Subject:       Cardboard
To:            p2tech@great-lakes.net
Reply-to:      p2tech@great-lakes.net

We are undertaking a project with a number of supermarkets in this city. 
They produce a large amount of cardboard packaging that arises from product
distribution.  The supermarkets are too small, have too many suppliers with
many of them from outside the country, to influence their suppliers.  They
alone cannot introduce returnable containers.  The market for recyled
cardboard is very variable.  Currently the supermarkets cannot find a
collector for recycling. Has anyone any good P2 ideas?

Noel Duffy
Clean Technology Centre, Ireland
nduffy@cleansun.rtc-cork.ie
Vic Young, Waste Reduction Resource Center
PO Box 29569, Raleiigh, NC 27626-9569
(800)476-8686 Fax (919)715-6794
vic_young@owr.ehnr.state.nc.us
http://www.owr.ehnr.state.nc.us/wrrc1.htm