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Carrousel Packaging:
a positive impact on the environment and on the planet.
At Carrousel Packaging, we’re proud to be Canada’s leader in packaging
solutions, and we strive to become the industry standard for sustainable,
eco-responsible packaging.
Going green with open arms
After 50 years of constant innovation and development, Carrousel Packaging has
become Canada’s leader in packaging. And, as a family business headed by Brigitte
Jalbert, our founder’s daughter, we’ve given ourselves the mission of encouraging our
clients to adopt more eco-responsible ways of doing business. How? By offering them
a variety of innovative solutions to reduce single-use plastics and encouraging recycling.
And by accompanying them throughout their ecological transition, helping them
comply with new government and municipal regulations (in effect in Montreal as of
March 28, 2023, and federally, starting December 22, 2023).
Successful initiatives
Our sensitivity and concern over the use of single-use plastics began in late 2018,
and from that day forward, Carrousel Packaging has been working closely with
Éco Entreprises Québec, an organization helping businesses fulfill their legal recycling
obligations as per the Environmental Quality Act. Martin Boily, VP of Sales and
Marketing, explains: «;Our goal is to make Carrousel a model and leader in ecoresponsibility, so we called on Éco Entreprises Québec to train our staff so that
each of us could become an ambassador for the cause."
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Michel Bourrassa, our CEO, is firmly
committed to that cause and knows that
the ecological turnaround must start
internally: «We’ve just launched the Eco
Innov Centre, to develop as much
knowledge and expertise about eco-responsibility as possible, with the goal of
helping our clients achieve best practices,
so that together, we can change the way
we use packaging.” To that end, Carrousel
Packaging is implementing the 500 Plus
Commitment program, enhancing its offer
of 500 new eco-friendly products annually
until 2024—products like paper straws
and wooden coffee sticks.
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Our goal: to
continuously evolve with the realities of
our industry and governing regulations.
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Giving plastic a second life
Every year, millions of pounds of stretch film used by businesses in Quebec end up in landfills. So, in 2020, Carrousel Packaging partnered with plastic bag manufacturer Polykar, to launch the Carrou-Cycle program, tackling this pressing environmental
problem. Carrousel is proud of this innovative, eco-responsible initiative, which helps
reduce the amount of residual material used in this type of packaging.
Thanks to this circular-economy program, companies everywhere can better meet their environmental commitments and manufacturing new products from used stretch film transformed into polyethylene resin. In that same spirit, Carrousel now markets the
Terra, a film product made from 75% post-consumer materials designed to be the
most sustainable product in its category.
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Carrousel is the official distributor of
La Tasse, which is a system of reusable
returnable cups distributed in a network
of more than 400 stores across Quebec
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Carrousel also supports La tasse —a project promoting returnable containers as
alternatives to coffee cups. What’s more, we’re currently in discussion to offer reusable
containers for ready-to-eat products across our markets. And because whatever gets
used needs to be cleaned, CEO Michel Bourassa is proud to announce the launch of
«a new line of specialized dishwashers that help facilitate the transition to reusable
dishes—we’ve even integrated a dishwasher and laundry repair and maintenance
service under the private brand, GRV.»
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A key player, now more than ever
Carrousel Packaging strives to play a major
role by positively influencing its 18,000 clients,
including small-business owners, restaurants
and bars, food processors, supermarkets and
manufacturers. To that end, it’s vital that we play
an active role in the evolution of our industry, so
we can truly become eco-responsible corporate
citizens. In concrete terms, we’ve decided to
discontinue all products made of biodegradable
plastic, including PLA, in addition to reducing
our use of petrol-based fuels in transportation. Studies have clearly shown the harmful effects
of these plastics at the end of their life cycle and
clearly, they are incompatible with composting
facilities.
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Michel Bourassa goes on to say that
«because of the current lack of recycling
available for certain types of plastics, we’ve
cut back on plastic products as a whole, even
though most are fully recyclable. And, because
we’re proud proponents of the circular economy, we prioritize containers made of
recycled plastic. And we always prioritize products made in Quebec, as locally sourced
products are clearly less harmful to our
environment.»
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Steadfastly determined to be a key player in the development of sustainable and
eco-responsible packaging solutions across Canada, Carrousel Packaging is firmly
committed to preserving the planet’s resources by reducing the environmental impact
of its products over the coming years. For more information, visit carrousel.ca
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