Industry report slams lack of credible data for packaging waste misinformation

摘要

The Canadian packaging industry's efforts to improve its waste diversion performance are stymied by the lack of credible, up-to-date statistical data that accurately measures its share of the overall wastestreams, according to a scathing report from the Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) claiming that packaging waste is generally blamed for a far greater share of the country's waste problems than it should.