SCA Tissue has
earned the prestigious Environmental Choice(M) Program certification for all
five of its paper mills.
SCA Tissue became
the first American sanitary paper manufacturer to earn the ECP designation when
its mill in Menasha, Wisc., was certified last fall by Environmental Choice,
North America’s oldest and most widespread environmental certification program.
That certification has now been expanded to the SCA Tissue mills in Flagstaff,
Ariz., Alsip, Ill., Barton, Alab., and Greenwich, NY.
The Environmental
Choice Program, established in 1988, certifies and recognizes products and
services that are environmentally preferable. Unlike most third-party green
certification programs that measure specific attributes such as recycled
content levels, Environmental Choice takes a broad, holistic approach that also
elevates a company’s total impact on the environment.
ECP certification
means SCA Tissue’s mills meet, and must continue to meet, strict requirements
in four categories:
(1)
Resource consumption –
qualifies the types and amounts of materials used to produce one ton of
product, including pre- and post-consumer material, printed recovered material
and other fibre sources.
(2)
Energy consumption – measures
types and amounts of energy used per one ton of product produced to ensure the
most efficient use of energy.
(3)
Effluent – measures plant
discharge for its biological oxygen demand, total suspended solids and levels
of sub-lethal toxicity to aquatic organisms.
(4)
Net solid waste – evaluates
waste streams for the amount of solid waste from production.
