About the new school milk recruitment area of strawless container School POP®
~First hired in Miyagi and Shizuoka prefectures, expanded to a total of 24 prefectures~
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Toru Nozawa, Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter referred to as "the Company") has further expanded the adoption area of the strawless school milk container School POP®. It was adopted for the first time in Miyagi and Shizuoka prefectures, and will be expanded to a total of 24 prefectures.
Since the announcement of the development in June 2020, School POP® has been adopted in Kochi Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Himawari Dairy) in January 2021, 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, Ishikawa Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, It has been adopted in areas such as Hokkaido, and has become synonymous with strawless school milk containers, and has spread rapidly without any rivals.
This time, it has been newly introduced in Miyagi Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Yamada Dairy Industry, school lunches from early April) and Shizuoka Prefecture (dairy manufacturer: Kannan Eastern Agricultural Cooperative, school lunches from 3/4), expanding the recruitment area to 24 prefectures.
Approximately 1.5 billion bottles of school lunch milk in paper containers are used annually in Japan. In total, more than 600 million School POPs® are expected to be supplied annually, covering more than 40% of the total, together with the areas that have already been adopted. If one straw is calculated as 0.5g, it is calculated that 300 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 the slogan "Pioneering ® the future"”, our company aims to contribute to the rich life and cultural development of people, and focuses on the field of paper packaging. With the slogan"What can be done with paper with ® paper ", We will continue to pursue the potential of paper containers born from the renewable resource "wood", and will continue to make various proposals. We will also accelerate our efforts to further expand the recruitment area for School POP®.
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