Strawless container School POP(R)Recruitmentarea further expanded from September
~Expanded to a total of 18 prefectures with the first Recruitmentin the three prefectures of Gunma, Toyama, and Aichi~
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (head office : Chiyoda-ku,President and Representative Director: Toru Nozawa, hereinafter referred to as"the Company”) will furtherRecruitmentarea of the strawless school milk container School POP(R) manufactured and sold from September in the fall semester.
Since the development announcement in June 2020, School POP(R) has beenRecruitmentin Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, 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, Kanagawa Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture and other areas.Recruitment As synonymous with strawless school milk containers, it has become unrivaled and rapidly spreading.
This time, it has been decided to introduce it in Gunma Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Tomo Dairy), Toyama Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Toyama Alpine Dairy), and Aichi Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Chuo Milk), and the Recruitment School POP(R) will be expanded to 18 prefectures.
Approximately 1.4 billion bottles of school lunch milk inpaper cartonsare used annually in Japan. In addition to the 350 million units that have beenRecruitmentso far, the Recruit ment area is expected to supply more than 400 million School POP(R) bottles per year, covering 28% of the total. If one straw is calculated as 0.5g, it is calculated that 200 tons of single-use plastic can be reduced. *1
*1 There are various types of straws such as 0.3~0.7g in weight.
With theSlogan of "Shaping the Future with Trees”, the Company focuses on the field of paper packaging, aiming to contribute to people's rich lives and cultural development. With the slogan "Let paper do what it can do.”, we will continue to pursue the potential 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(R).