School milk Recruitment area for strawless containers School POP®will be further expanded in FY2024
~Expanded to a total of 21 prefectures with first Recruitmentin Ishikawa, Kyoto, and Kumamoto prefectures~
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (President &President and Representative Director: Toru Nozawa, Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku,head office , hereinafter referred to as"the Company”) Recruitment of strawless school milk container School POP® manufactured and sold The area will be further expanded from April 2024.
School POP® was adopted in Kochi Prefecture and Himawari Dairy in January 2021Recruitment, followed by 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, Kanagawa Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Gunma Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Aichi 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 Ishikawa Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Hori Dairy), Kyoto Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Hirabayashi Dairy), and Kumamoto Prefecture ( dairy manufacturer: Kumamoto Morinaga Milk, Kuma Dairy Farm), and the Recruitment School POP® will be expanded to 21 prefectures.
*Hori Dairy has Recruit mentsince February 13, 2024.
In addition, in areas where it has been expanded for a long time, adoption is spreading to Saitama Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Seibu Dairy), Osaka Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Vitamin Dairy, Ikaruga Milk), and Hyogo Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Kyojin Farm). Recruitment
Approximately 1.5 billion bottles of school lunch milk inpaper cartonsare used annually in Japan. In addition to the 400 million units that have beenRecruitmentso far, theRecruitmentarea is expected to supply more than 500 million School POPs® per year, covering 30% of the total. If one straw is calculated as 0.5g, it is calculated that 250 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 ""Shaping the Future with Trees® the future with trees ”, the Company focuses on the field of paper packaging, aiming to contribute to the rich life and cultural development of people. 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. ®