WHAT IS PACKAGING RECOVERY?

When packaging is taken out of use, it becomes waste. Packaging waste may be recovered in two ways:

• by recycling, as raw material for a new product: for example, to make cores in the paper industry from cardboard boxes, or new beverage cans from beverage cans
• recovery of packaging as energy: for example, incinerating wooden pallets, cardboard or plastic - plastic packaging is comparable to oil as fuel.

Merely sorting does not constitute recovery of packaging, while only packaging taken out of use is waste.