John Mullinder Email & Phone Number

Canada

Ontario, Canada

Author of Little Green Lies and Other BS: From "Ancient" Forests to "Zero" Waste (2021) and Deforestation in Canada and Other Fake News (2018), Packaging and the Environment (a selection of blogs) and short stories Confessions of a Houseboat Rookie and Of Horses and Men (all available via www.johnmullinder.ca).

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Inducted into Pulp & Paper Canada's Hall of Fame (February, 2023). Appointed December 1990 as inaugural Executive Director. Responsible for management and policy positions of the council; for liaising with industry, governments and consumer groups; networking on common issues; and for monitoring, developing and communicating the industry's environmental performance.30-year track record of environmental leadership:> Pioneered the composting of waxed corrugated and old boxboard in the 1990s (an alternative to recycling in regions far from recycling mills). PPEC was the first in North America to investigate and prove that composting old boxboard and waxed corrugated boxes was a viable option. Today, Nova Scotia sends more old boxboard for composting than it does for recycling.> First in North America (and possibly the world) to trial and promote the further recycling of old boxboard (such as cereal and shoe boxes). In the 1990s, this material, mostly made from 100% recycled paper already, was considered too short and fine to be of any further use in papermaking so went to landfill. John chaired the efforts of the Boxboard Task Group to further recycle this material. Today, some 94% of Canadians have access to its recycling. > First to apply activity-based costing to residential (Blue Box) recycling programs (creating a more level playing field between packaging materials). > Pioneered a Food Packaging Protocol for mills using recycled board (giving confidence to customers using material from residential sources)> The first paper packaging association in the world whose entire mill membership is now independently third-party certified to internationally recognized "chain-of-custody" standards (responsible sourcing of both virgin and recycled materials)> First packaging association in Canada and possibly first corrugated association in the world to publicly call for a landfill ban on the type of packaging material its own members produce.

Brampton

Responsible for managing the creation of and leading a new corrugated association focused on non-environmental issues (while at the same time continuing part-time as Executive Director of PPEC). Managed industry statistics, labour, and health and safety issues. Introduced a health and safety reporting system for corrugator plants so that they could better track and benchmark their performance.Was active in the debate between reusable plastic crates and corrugated boxes: countering misinformation, funding research studies, and encouraging the greater use of repulpable waxes and coatings.Together with colleague Allan Kirkpatrick, persuaded the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) to change its box strength specifications for carrying wine and liquor bottles (opening the door to the greater use of recycled fibre in that large market).

New Zealand And Canada

New Zealand-based correspondent for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines: National Business Review (NZ), National Farmer (Australia), Chronicle for Higher Education (US), Maclean's magazine and the Financial Post (Canada). Editor of business magazines in New Zealand and Canada and news and current affairs reporter/researcher with Television New Zealand.