The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK, which provides a platform for the industry to profile and benchmark cartons as a renewable, recyclable and low carbon packaging choice, has welcomed the new Dairy Roadmap Environmental Sustainability Report.
The Dairy Roadmap taskforce features more than 25 organizations from across Britain's dairy industry including farming representatives, retailers, dairy manufacturers, government and industry partners.
Together, these organizations define targets and produce regular reports on progress that the industry is making on environmental matters.
ACE UK chief executive Richard Hands said that the new Roadmap target is to ensure that at least 80% of dairy carton packages carry the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label by 2015.
"We are happy to sign up to this commitment, alongside the ultimate aim of having 100% of carton packages in dairy carrying the FSC label by 2020," Hands added.
"We will be working closely with our customers and the retailers to achieve this."
ACE UK represents Tetra Pak, Elopak and SIG Combibloc, manufacturers of beverage cartons for the UK market.
It is also supported by BillerudKorsnas and Stora Enso, which produce about 98% of the paperboard used by ACE UK members in beverage cartons in Europe.
