Strawless school milk container School POP®Recruitment area expands dramatically
~Recruitmentin some areas of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Gifu, Tokushima, and Saga has been decided~
Nippon Paper Industries Co.,Ltd.
Nippon Paper Industries Co.,Ltd. (head office : Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,President and Representative Director: Toru Nozawa, hereinafter referred to as“the Company”) will expand dramatically from April in the Recruitment area of the strawless school milk container School POP(R).
Since the announcement of the development in June 2020, School POP(R) has been Recruitmentin areas such as Kitakyushu City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, and parts of Ibaraki Prefecture, starting with its Recruitmentin Kochi Prefecture and Himawari Dairy in January 2021, but this time it has been newly adopted in Ibaraki Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Tokushima Prefecture, and Saga Prefecture*1 Recruitmentin has been decided.
*1Recruitmentarea and dairy manufacturers from April 2022 
In this Recruitment, local governments, boards of education, and dairy manufacturers focused on the environmental performance of School POP(R)“Milk container without straw”, and it was highly praised for its contribution to the experience of eliminating and reducing plastic from familiar places and fostering environmental awareness in school education such as school lunch milk.
Approximately 1.4 billion bottles of school lunch milk inpaper cartonsare used annually in Japan. Combined with the regions announced so far, we expect to supply more than 200 million School POP(R) bottles per year, covering 15% of the total. If one straw is calculated as 0.5g, it is calculated that can reduce 100 tons of single-use plastic.
The Company theSlogan of “Shaping the Future with Trees”, we aim to contribute to the rich life and cultural development of people, and focus on the field of paper packaging. With the slogan “Let paper do what it can do. ”, we will continue to pursue the possibilities ofpaper cartonsborn from the renewable resource“Wood”, and will continue to make various proposals. We will also accelerate our efforts to further expand theRecruitmentarea for School POP®.