SunRype switches its juice box straws to paper

SunRype is getting ahead of the proposed federal ban on plastic straws by switching to recyclable, bendable paper straws on all its 200 ml beverage boxes in Canada.

That change is in effect now, according to a news release issued by the company today, Sept. 14.

“We plan on incorporating recyclable packaging for all of our products, and the launch of paper straws on our single-serve juice products is another step in the right direction,” Claire Bara, president of Lassonde Industries, the company that owns SunRype, said in a news release.

“We know that our customers place a lot of importance on finding products that meet today’s environmental challenges, and these SunRype juice containers with new bendable paper straws are now available at Canadian grocery retailers – just in time for back to school lunch boxes.”

The packaging of the Tetra Pak juice containers is already recyclable.

SunRype started in Kelowna in 1946 and was bought by Lassonde in 2020. It makes juice as well as fruit snacks that are manufactured in Kelowna and two facilities in Washington State.

READ MORE: Deal to sell Sun-Rype for $80 million underway

The federal government plans to ban straws and other single use plastics by the end of the year.

READ MORE: Bags, straws and stir sticks among first targets of Canada-wide plastics ban


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Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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