| If you've never really given the Australian | | | | diminished a bit but is still fairly common. Glass |
| packaging industry much thought, it's high time | | | | only accounts for 10% of the packaging that's |
| you did. After all, it employs thousands of your | | | | used in Australia today, which makes sense since |
| fellow citizens and provides the packaging that | | | | it is the most breakable and the least practical. |
| keeps your cereal fresh and your cheese from | | | | Recycling And The Packaging Industry - |
| going bad. Learn a bit more about the numbers | | | | Considering that the packaging industry only |
| behind this interesting industry by reading on | | | | contributes about 10% of urban solid waste, it is |
| below. | | | | remarkable that the industry has, nonetheless, |
| The Packaging Industry: Value And Employment - | | | | agreed to a National Packaging Covenant that will |
| Numbers are among the very best ways to get | | | | increase the levels at which it recycles various |
| an idea about the size of something. Consider this: | | | | materials. For example: Plastics, which are |
| The Australian packaging industry accounts for | | | | currently recycled at a rate of approximately |
| approximately 1% of the country's GDP, or Gross | | | | 20%, will now be recycled approximately 30% to |
| Domestic Product. That may sound small, but | | | | 35% of the time. Paper and cardboard, which are |
| Australia is a massive country with a very high | | | | currently recycled at a rate of approximately |
| volume of output. Combine that fact with the | | | | 64%, will now be recycled at a rate of |
| fact that approximately 30,000 people are | | | | approximately 70% to 80%. |
| employed by the Australian packaging industry, | | | | Packaging: An Industry To Watch - |
| and it's easy to see why this industry is so | | | | Whether you work in the packaging industry or |
| important. | | | | not, there's no question that it plays a major role |
| Material Statistics Related To The Packaging | | | | in your life. From the food you buy at the store |
| Industry - | | | | to the recycling that you do, packaging plays a |
| At 36%, paper and cardboard packaging definitely | | | | role in many aspects of your day to day life. As |
| corner the market when it comes to packaging | | | | time goes by, the industry itself will be amping up |
| materials. A simple glance in your pantry or | | | | its recycling efforts and will be contributing to the |
| refrigerator will confirm to you that this is the | | | | health of the planet. In this way, consumers can |
| case. However, plastics have reached 30% - a | | | | feel good about the food products that they buy |
| very respectable figure that is easy to confirm, | | | | and can rest assured that the industry that |
| what with the popularity of plastic packaging | | | | packages them is always working to make the |
| these days. At 20%, metal packaging has | | | | world a better place. |