25 Feb. 2023: The recycling paper industry needs raw material – fewer newspapers, less advertisement due to the Corona pandemic and increased electronic communication lead to decreasing amounts of paper for recycling.

Also, too much of the paper for recycling bypasses the sorting plant and thus the deinking mills, going directly into packaging – here due to the “Amazonitis” the demand is ever rising.

Complex composite packaging is often not recyclable and therefore not sustainable, even if it is fibre-based. And especially white fibres should stay where they generate the highest value. Even if sorting means effort, sorting is necessary to keep white fibres available for new white, graphic paper; for hygiene papers and white top liners – and to keep it from downcycling.

Availability and quality are the key issues for the INGEDE Symposium 2023. Expert speakers will show options for future sustainable raw material management: By certifying sorting plants to avoid costly refusals and negotiations, by certifying paper and print products for optimum recyclability, and by developing sorting technologies to save more white fibres for the white cycle.

Paper after Corona:
Lack of raw material; environmental aspects becoming more important
INGEDE Symposium 2023 on Wednesday, 8 March

The INGEDE Symposium will be a hybrid event, with participation in Munich on location at Haus der Bayerischen Wirtschaft in Munich as well as online. Either way, the participation fee will be 460 euros.