During the last three years, the average carbon footprint of Corrugated was reduced from 784 kg/t to 746 kg/t. The main reason is a considerable drop in electricity usage, mainly due to the reduction of electricity bought by kraftliner producers. Pulp and paper mills with kraft cooking, as used by all kraftliner producers, have invested heavily the last four to five years on the energy conservation side of their processes. New big boilers for bark and other biofuels combined with steam turbines are used for electricity production.

The Corrugated Industry intensifies the use of recycled fibers for the production of Corrugated Packaging: the input of recycled paper into new Corrugated increased from 82% in 2009 to 85% in 2012.

FEFCO publishes new data used to calculate the environmental impact of Corrugated Packaging in its newest “European Database for Corrugated Board Life Cycle Studies”: http://www.fefco.org/technical-documents/lca-database.