By 2030, the global population is expected to reach 8.3 billion. More and more people need to consume a large amount of raw materials, water, energy, and food. The environmental issues brought about by climate change, as well as population growth and changes in consumption patterns, have made the burden on the Earth heavier. Such a realistic environment urgently calls for the arrival of a circular economy and the efficient utilization of limited Earth resources.

Does garbage have a lifecycle? In the view of Stora Enso, ordinary garbage can also be reborn. Stora Enso has initiated a revolution in turning waste into treasure and continues to promote the development of a circular economy.

The recycled cardboard and waste paper are piled up in bundles in the raw material warehouse of Stora Enso's Dawang factory in Shandong, China. But it is these seemingly garbage like raw materials that keep the factory's huge paper machine running, and the recycled fiber content in the pulp used in the products is as high as 80% or more, making the Stora Enso King Factory the "king" of recycling paper papermaking in China, providing customers with high-quality super calendered paper products. In Europe, the Langerbrugge factory in Stora Enso, with a production capacity of 1.25 million tons, has created an "urban forest" - collecting and recycling waste paper from the residential areas of approximately 80 million residents within a radius of 300 kilometers around the factory, all of which is made from recycled fibers. Stora Enso Ostro?? The ka factory has established a unique recycling system in Poland, with a total of 20 collection and classification stations. Only one station in the Polish suburb of Pruszk ó w can recycle about 1100 tons of waste cardboard per month, transporting raw materials for the factory to produce cardboard and cardboard packaging.

Stora Enso's resource reuse work is not limited to recycling and producing recycled paper. In Europe, Stora Enso utilizes ********'s pyrolysis technology to sequentially decompose fibers, plastics, and aluminum in ordinary beverage packaging boxes. After fiber purification, new cardboard is made, plastic is used to produce electric energy, and aluminum is pressed into aluminum bricks for sale. Stora Enso converts the byproducts of the sawmill into sawdust particles, providing environmentally friendly energy for industrial and civilian equipment. Stora Enso is not a garbage collection company, but has turned garbage into a successful business. In 2014, the waste utilization rate of Stora Enso Group reached 98%.

The concept of "turning waste into treasure and efficiently utilizing resources" is embedded in Stora Enso's comprehensive production and operation.

In terms of raw materials, the utilization of wood has also been maximized by Stora Enso. In Stora Enso, every tree is covered in treasure. The thicker part is directly used as building wood; The finer parts, as well as tree branches and branches, are transported to the pulp mill. The waste after pulping, such as bark and pulp residue, can be burned and used for papermaking energy; The waste wood chips produced by wood processing can be used as raw materials for pulp mills... Every part of the tree has its own place, and the utilization rate has reached an astonishing height. With the continuous improvement of production technology, Stora Enso now saves more than half of the raw materials needed to make a milk box compared to the 1970s.

In production and operation, Stora Enso is also continuously saving energy and reducing emissions, and the excess heat energy can also be supplied to the community. Production water is one of the three major environmental indicators in the paper industry. The production line skills transformation of Stora Enso Suzhou Zixing Factory has reduced the comprehensive energy consumption per ton of paper by 33%, and the wastewater discharge per ton of paper is only half of the original amount. This has enabled the factory to coexist harmoniously with the urban beauty of "Junzhi Suzhou, Shuixiang Xiaoqiao". In Belgium, the Stora Ensolangreb factory collaborated with Volvo Cars to reduce Volvo's annual carbon dioxide emissions by 15000 tons through the use of renewable energy for heating.