What your carton will become

You’ll find here a video of what happens to the food and beverage cartons at our processing partner’s manufacturing facility in Hamilton, and the range of products saveBOARD is making with those cartons. As the Scheme grows, we will welcome more recycling partners. Find out how to become a Scheme processing partner here.

The cartons are firstly shredded and then heated in a press, where approximately 20% of a food and beverage carton, which is plastic, melts and becomes the “glue” to the finished product which looks much like a sheet of plywood. There is no added glue or resins, nor water, used in the process. The boards are trimmed to width and length with all the waste going back into the process – so there is zero waste; and all of this is done here in Aotearoa New Zealand with 100% renewable electricity.