Smurfit Kappa - How does a manufacturing giant embrace zero waste?

Michael Holder
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BusinessGreen visits paper packaging giant's Roermond Mill, where it has closed the resource loop and created additional income streams

There aren't many global businesses which can justifiably claim their operations produce no waste whatsoever - i.e. that all unwanted resources are reused, recycled or used to produce energy, if not avoided...

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