The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK provides a platform for the industry to profile and benchmark cartons as a renewable, recyclable and low-carbon packaging choice, and to drive its environmental initiatives. This includes running the industry’s carton recycling programme.
ACE UK represents Tetra Pak, Elopak, SIG Combibloc, the leading manufacturers of beverage cartons for the UK market. It is also supported by BillerudKorsnäs and Stora Enso, which produce about 98% of the paperboard used by ACE UK members to manufacture beverage cartons in Europe.
Capable of recycling up to 40% (25,000 tonnes) of the cartons manufactured each year for the UK food and drink market – that’s 1.25 billion cartons – a new plant dedicated beverage carton recycling facility, located in Stainland (near Halifax), West Yorkshire, opened on 3 September 2013.
