Label Release Liner: Looking to the Future

Industry recycling initiatives
Delegates then heard from the proponents of two recycling concepts in the area of glassine liner recycling developed by and for the label industry. Marko Haveri of UPM Kymmene Fine & Specialty Papers outlined the new program, developed in conjunction with French paper recycling specialists Vertaris, for the collection of liner waste across a broad area of Europe and closed-loop recycling to new paper manufacturing. Petri Tani, president, Cycle4Green, revisited the drivers for liner recycling—including high waste tipping fees, the need to reduce manufacturing and packaging waste, and legislation—and underlined the need to scale up the volume of recycling to a level where the value of the recycled goods created can outweigh the recycling costs. Not only that, “A 10-15 percent reduction in carbon footprint can be achieved when you recycle 50,000 tonnes of release waste,” he said.