Juno Becomes an Award-Winning Solution

Georgia-Pacific’s Juno® Technology is a patented waste recovery technology that has the potential to divert up to 90 percent of the commercial and residential waste it processes – diverting waste from landfills and recapturing materials for beneficial reuse.  Not only is Juno able to reclaim previously un-recyclable materials, but it can also turn food waste into renewable biogas, and each ton of waste processed through a Juno facility represents up to a one-ton net reduction CO2 emissions.*   

The process takes municipal solid waste currently going to landfills from select residential waste streams as well as commercial locations such as office buildings, airports, schools, fast food restaurants and malls. The material is processed and sanitized and the fiber is fed into the paper-making process with old corrugated containers (OCC) to be repurposed into products like corrugated boxes. The processed fiber meets the criteria for food contact packaging in the U.S. Other recyclable materials can be fed back into their respective markets and the food can be converted to biogas.

Juno Technology gives us the ability to capture previously un-recyclable commercial waste, such as cups with plastic coatings or paper-based packaging with food contamination. Commercial sites can send everything for processing through Juno that is not being recycled, with no additional sorting.

*Estimated through the GaBi model and it’s CO2e impact was applied to WARM model 15 output Georgia-Pacific’s Juno® Technology is a patented recycling technology that has the potential to divert up to 90 percent of the commercial waste it processes from landfills and recapture materials for beneficial reuse.