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The quick reference guide below exemplifies how products made from Stora Enso’s renewable materials can help solve common lifestyle challenges for today's eco-aware consumers.
Building with wood is a key success factor in the fight against climate change, as long as the forests where the wood is harvested are managed sustainably. Trees and wood-based products store carbon, keeping it out of our atmosphere. Wooden buildings are no exception, and store carbon over periods of many years. Wood is also five times lighter than concrete, meaning easier transportation and less materials required in building foundations.
Example solution: Office Building Concept by Stora Enso
Renewable packaging materials, such as paperboard can be used to safeguard most food and beverage products on our supermarket shelves that today are packed in fossil-based materials, for example juice containers, cottage cheese tubs and glass milk bottles.
Example solution: Natura by Stora Enso
A composite material is a material that is made using two or more constituent materials. In a biocomposite, one or more of these materials is from bio-based origins, for example wood fibers. Biocomposites can be used to reduce or fully replace fossil-based materials in everyday products such as furniture, toys and household utensils.
Example solution: DuraSense by Stora Enso
Fresh fish requires waterproof and leakproof packaging, as it is often packed with ice. This type of packaging generally contains high levels of plastics such as styrofoam and polystyrene, which can pose an environmental hazard if they end up in the ocean. The same type of packaging can however be made from corrugated board.
Example solution: Ecofishbox by Stora Enso
It’s not necessary for microwaveable ready-meal packaging to be made only of plastic. Up to 90% of the plastic in these packages can be replaced with renewable wood fiber. As long as forests are managed sustainably, this significantly reduces the environmental impact of ready-meal packaging.
Example solution: Trayforma by Stora Enso
Plastics have become such an integral part of our lives that we often don’t see the extent to which we are surrounded by them. One example of this is RFID tags – the commonly plastic-based tags that are used for example to track products during transit and manage clothing stocks. Manufacturing these small tags from renewable materials instead of plastic can make a big difference in reducing unnecessary plastic usage.
Example solution: ECO RFID by Stora Enso
The way the world buys and tries products has gone through an enormous transformation over the past few years. Much of our shopping is done online, meaning a lot more packaging used to send and return purchases. This has turned our focus towards the environmental footprint of packaging – and the question of how packaging design can help reduce waste. Fortunately, solutions are at hand for online retailers.
Example solution: e-TALES by Stora Enso
Demand for textiles is at an all-time high due to population growth and increasing disposable incomes, with 70% of textiles currently made from petroleum-based fibers. What’s more, recycling of textiles is at a low level. There are however a number of renewable textiles emerging. Viscose for example is a textile made from renewable natural fibers that come from trees in the form of dissolving pulp.
Example solution: Pure by Stora Enso (dissolving pulp)
Non-renewable and hazardous materials are not always visible to the naked eye. For example, phenols are fossil-based chemicals used in the production of resins, which are used as adhesive binders. Phenols can be replaced with renewable, bio-based materials like lignin, which is extracted from wood. Lignin has a similar performance to phenols but is non-toxic and more environmentally friendly.
Example solution: Lineo by Stora Enso
Single-use plastics, such as on-the-go food-packs and cutlery represent a major challenge in combatting plastic pollution. National and local governments around the world are taking various measures in this respect, the EU directive on single-use plastics being one of the most visible actions. Under the directive, cutlery, plates and straws made of plastic will be banned, along with polystyrene food and drink containers. What luck then that all of these items can be made from renewable, wood-based materials instead!
Example solution: Foodbox by Stora Enso
