Performance
| 2022 | 2021 | |
| Share of fossil-free packaging | 89,0 % | 88,2 % |
| Share of recycled plastic in plastic packaging |
24,4 % | 17,1 % |
Packaging protects hygiene products
The packaging that protects hygiene tissue products plays a crucial role in enabling deliveries of the products to the end users in a hygienic and safe condition. Thus packaging has to be both practical and sustainable. Plastic is a commonly used and proven packaging material in consumer products, having the ability to protect the tissues in an efficient way and functioning well in the production process and across the supply chain. Fibre based raw materials are another very important packaging material type, enabling fossil free development in packaging. At Metsä Tissue, we continuously look for ways to reduce, recycle, and replace fossil-based plastics in packaging and our goal is to have an offering with fossil-free products and packaging by 2030.
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100
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Target 2030: fossil-free packaging
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89
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share of fossil-free packaging in 2022
Majority of the packaging material Metsä Tissue uses is carton board and other wood fibre based materials, which are mainly used in toilet tissue and household towel rolls’ cores, paper hand towel products’ banderols and in the carton boxes used for transporting goods. While plastic packaging is the most commonly known packaging material by consumers , plastic represents only 25% of all packaging materials used by Metsä Tissue. The target in plastic packaging material use is to continuously increase the share of recycled raw material.
During 2022 the share of recycled raw material in plastic packaging increased steadily in all of Metsä Tissue’s production sites. In total Metsä Tissue reduced its use of virgin, fossil based plastic 1 970 tons, equaling saving of over 4 million kg of fossil CO2eq or 3,7 million liters of oil not being used for plastic production. Metsä Tissue’s Scandinavian region is a forerunner in the use and availability of recycled raw material in plastic packaging, the share of recycling material being on average 30%, while the Metsä Tissue average is 24%.