TICCIT 2010
Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees

As part of National Paperboard Packaging Week (April 19 - 25, 2010), PPC members will partner with schools from local communities throughout the U.S. and Canada as part of the TICCIT (Trees Into Cartons Cartons Into Trees) (pronounced “Ticket”) program.

TICCIT is an outreach and education program highlighting the natural renewability and sustainability of paperboard packaging. At the center of TICCIT is a mainstay of the typical school day: the milk carton.

As part of TICCIT, milk cartons will be collected out of schools’ waste streams and re-used for planting new trees. Seeds and saplings will be planted in the cartons, and then the new “carton-and-tree units” will be planted in the ground. The cartons provide protection and a natural “water funnel” for the new trees. As the trees grow, the cartons breakdown, completing the trees into cartons, cartons into trees cycle.

For more information, please scroll down or click on the links below.

2010 Classroom Materials (.pdf)

2010 Member Announcement (.pdf)

Press Release

Order Seedlings

2009 TICCIT Highlights