Circular economy

Our focus concerning the circular economy is on achieving our strategic sustainability targets for fossil-free production units and products, water and energy efficiency as well as zero process waste to landfills.

Ensuring and developing the recyclability and compostability of our paperboards is of key importance in our operations. Our paperboards, produced with renewable wood fibre, can be recycled, depending on local recycling systems.

Maintaining the material cycle also requires the addition of primary raw materials to the cycle. Fresh fibre is therefore needed to maintain a good and functioning recycling loop of fibre-based packaging.

Through our 360 Services, we help our customers to improve the recyclability and material efficiency of their packages through packaging life cycle calculations, data-based comparisons of the environmental impacts of different materials, and concrete packaging solutions.

Discover how we promote the circular economy in our operations

We make the most of the wood we use

As part of Metsä Group, we make full use of each tree that is felled to ensure nothing goes to waste.

From the most valuable parts of wood, the thick trunks, Metsä Group's production units manufacture wood products for construction, for example. The thinner parts of the tree trunk and the younger trees from thinning are the main raw materials for pulp and paperboard products. The bark and branches are used to generate bioenergy.

The manufacturing processes of our core products also generate side streams that are valuable raw materials for us and our partners in other industries. Read more about the utilisation of side-streams.