Strawless School Milk Container School POP(R)RecruitmentArea Further Expanded in FY2023
~addition to the firstRecruitmentin Kanagawa and Osaka, theRecruitmentarea is expanding in Tokyo and Chiba~
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (President and Representative Director: Toru Nozawa, Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku,head office , hereinafter referred to as"the Company”) will further Recruit ment area of the strawless school milk container School POP(R) manufactured and sold from April of the new fiscal year.
Since the development announcement in June 2020, School POP(R) has beenRecruitmentin Kochi Prefecture and Himawari Dairy in January 2021, and has beenRecruitmentin Kitakyushu City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Tokushima Prefecture, Saga Prefecture and other areas. It has become unrivaled and rapidly popular.
This time, in addition to the new Recruitment in Kanagawa Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Yokohama Morinaga Milk, Snow Brand Meg Milk) and Osaka Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Japan Dairy Cooperative), the supply area has been greatly expanded in local governments such as Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture (dairy manufacturers: Furuya Dairy, Snow Brand Meg Milk) that have already Recruitment. More students will be provided with the value of School POP(R) "Strawless”.
Approximately 1.4 billion bottles of school lunch milk inpaper cartonsare used annually in Japan. In addition to the 200 million bottles that have beenRecruitmentso far, theRecruitmentis expected to supply more than 350 million School POP(R) bottles per year, covering 25% of the total. If one straw is calculated as 0.5g, it is calculated that 175 tons of single-use plastic can be reduced. *1
*1 There are various types of straws such as 0.3~0.7g in weight.
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 potential ofpaper cartonsborn from renewable resources"Wood”, and will continue to make various proposals. We will also accelerate our efforts to further expand the Recruitment area for School POP(R).
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