Over 75 Percent Of What Blue Box Collects Is Paper

摘要

When you crunch the numbers on Canada's various provincial Blue Box systems, one fact stands out more than any other. The Blue Box is basically a Paper Box, part of a larger feeder supply network for Canadian and other paper recycling mills. Paper's overwhelming dominance is more obvious, of course, in the many "deposit" provinces where beverage containers are returned outside of the Blue Box system. But even in "non-deposit" Ontario, paper is king. Over 75 percent of all the material collected in Ontario's Blue Box is paper of some kind, whether printed paper like newspapers or packaging boxes and cartons.This has not changed over the last 13 years of data compiled by the province's Blue Box industry-funding organization, Stewardship Ontario.