Metsä Board Magazine – Spring 2024

CERTIFIABLY COMPOSTABLE PAPERBOARDS

Metsä Board has achieved home compostability certification for all its white kraftliners and folding boxboards, excluding the PE-coated grades. The certification was issued by the renowned German certification body DIN CERTCO, based on compliance with the NF T 51-800 standard. All Metsä Board’s paperboards are made from pure and 100 per cent traceable fresh wood fibre and are all recyclable. The aim of recycling is to keep valuable materials in circulation as long as possible. “Recycling is the preferable option when the packaging or food service container has served its purpose. But some- times the packaging material can be stained by food, and then composting with biowaste is a good option,” says Helena Moring-Vepsäläinen , Product Safety Manager at Metsä Board. Composting is also a good option in areas where the local recycling infrastructure is still insufficient. “Our paperboards have had industrial compostability certification for several years now, and home compostability is one step further, which consumers certainly welcome”, Moring-Vepsäläinen adds.

“Home compostability is one step further, which consumers certainly welcome”, says Metsä Board’s Product Safety Manager Helena Moring-Vepsäläinen.

Metsä Board Sustainability Review 2023

PROMOTING ASSURED AND TRANSPARENT SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING

The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) entered into force in early 2023, strengthening the rules for the environmental, social and governance (ESG) information that companies operating in Europe have to report. The first companies will have to apply the new rules for the first time in the 2024 financial year, but the require- ments already guided Metsä Board’s sustainability reporting in 2023. Metsä Board’s Annual Review 2023, published in February, includes a comprehensive Sustainability State- ment with content and structure guided by the EU’s upcoming report- ing requirements. By preparing for the new statutory reporting requirements as early as 2023, Metsä Board aims

to be a forerunner in promoting the move towards assured sustainability reporting. A separate Sustainability Review, published in the spring, provides insights into the company’s progress towards its 2030 targets and offers customers key information about topics such as our paperboards’ envi- ronmental and climate impacts, sus- tainable forest management, social responsibility, and key regulations affecting the paperboard business. “With the Sustainability Review, we wanted to offer our customers highlights of our key sustainability objectives and achievements in 2023 beyond the mandatory reporting,” comments Sari Koski , Sustainability Manager at Metsä Board.