Smurfit Kappa is investing a whopping €27 million in a new state-of-the-art waste management and recovery facility at the Nervión paper mill in Iurreta, Spain. The investment will enable the mill to adopt a fully circular production process that includes the largest landfill reduction project Smurfit Kappa has undertaken to date to support the achievement of its 2025 sustainability commitments. The lime kiln and gas treatment system will have a production capacity of 120 tons of lime per day and offer significant environmental benefits. The new circular system will allow calcium carbonate waste currently generated in the plant's production process to be transformed into lime and later reintroduced into the production process as a raw material. This will have a positive impact on the plant's carbon footprint, diverting 75 thousand tons of waste from the landfill and eliminating about 450 thousand kilometers per year of road transportation.