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Monadnock Saves $1.5 Million with ‘Sludge Sled’
Monadnock Paper Mills is using a “sludge sled” to remove materials from its nine million gallon waste lagoon system, Forbes reports. The material goes through a wastewater treatment system and gets blended with short paper fibers to form a soil replenishment for farmers. This procedure has saved about $1.5 million ... Read more »
Novelis Completes Largest Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling Center in Asia
Novelis has completed its two-year, $400 million expansion program in South Korea that includes the largest aluminum beverage can recycling center in Asia, the company says. The expansion of its Yeongju and Ulsan plants increases the company’s production capacity in the region by more than 50 percent to approximately 1 ... Read more »
Sustainable Packaging Roundup: Novelis, Mars, Monadnock
Novelis has announced the commercial availability of what it says is the industry’s first independently certified, high-recycled content aluminum designed specifically for the beverage can market. With a minimum of 90 percent recycled aluminum, the Novelis evercan aluminum beverage can body sheet (pictured) allows beverage companies to deliver soft drinks, ... Read more »
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Prop.65 Suits, Ahold’s LEED Boom, RoHS Failures
Law firm the Chanler Group has filed Proposition 65 civil complaints in the Superior Court of California against spice and flavoring manufacturer McCormick & Company, coffee and flavoring manufacturer Farmer Bros., and Adams Extract & Spice, LLC. The complaints charge the three defendants with distributing food extracts, flavors and colorings ... Read more »
Environmental Enforcement Roundup: PCB Cleanup; School Asbestos Violations; PVC Mfr Penalties; Import Safety Task Force
Environmental Leader’s daily roundup of key environmental enforcement news: Recycling Company to Pay $52,000 Fine for PCB Violations The owner of an inoperative Bridgeport, Conn. brass facility has agreed to pay $52,000 for violating federal regulations covering the disposal, use, storage and marking violations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The Fairfield-based ... Read more »
Monadnock Papers And Boards Now FSC-Certified
Monadnock Paper Mills announced that its line-up of Graphic Arts Printing and Packaging Papers and Boards is now certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The Forest Stewardship Council, founded in 1993, is an alliance of global environmental and social groups, forestry professionals and indigenous peoples’ organizations that monitor and ... Read more »
Guide To Buying Sustainable Forest Products Published
The Forest Products Association of Canada and PricewaterhouseCoopers have published a free buyer’s guide for sustainable forest products. A Buyer’s Guide to Canada’s Sustainable Forest Products is designed to provide buyers guidance on what to consider when writing procurement policies and programs. The Guide encourages the reader to go beyond ... Read more »
Monadnock Releases New Edition Of Sustainable Printing Guide
Monadnock Paper Mills has announced the third edition of “A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print,” the company’s how-to guide for creating more sustainable print materials. New information includes a chapter on eco-marketing and “greenwashing,” and new information on inks and finishing. The company says the guide outlines alternative ... Read more »
Tools Advise On Purchasing Sustainable Forest-Based Products
A number of new resources from the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development have been unveiled to help businesses procure fsustainable forest-based products – such as construction materials and paper. The tools include a report (PDF) that includes the top 10 questions that corporate managers ... Read more »
Neenah Brands Go Carbon Neutral
Neenah Paper says that six of its brands, Classic Crest, Classic Linen, Classic Laid, Classic Columns, Classic Cotton, and Starwhite brands, are now manufactured carbon neutral. Neenah says it has reduced its net reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by buying Green-e certified renewable...
Sustainable Print Design Guide Released
Monadnock Paper Mills has released the second edition of a how-to guide for creating more sustainable print materials. A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print points out alternatives for design decisions that support sustainability. New information in the second edition includes a full chapter dedicated to packaging, an expanded section on energy and emissions, and an overview of the