Reducing the load

When you consider that cartons are made mostly from a renewable raw material, and can package and deliver many times their own weight in liquid food, they already look like a good choice for the environment. But the wood fibre in cartons is also easily and widely recycled.

Across Australia and New Zealand during 2010 a little more than 545 million litres of food - mainly milk and juice - were delivered in Tetra Pak cartons.

We used just under 18,000 tonnes of mostly wood fibre-based specialised cardboard to make those cartons. That's less than 40 grams of carton for every litre of food delivered.

And one in every 5 of those cartons was later collected for recycling - 50% more than were collected just seven years earlier, in 2003.

Learn more about recycling.