AF&PA Releases Sustainability Report
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The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA),Wash- ington, has released its 2020 Sustainability Report, high- lighting the paper and wood products industry’s sustain- ability efforts. According to the association,AF&PA member companies have been required to adhere to, and report biennially on, a set of environmental, health and safety (EHS) principles since they were adopted in 1998 as well as on and sustain- able procurement principles. The current report reflects members’ progress in 2018. 2020 AF&PA Sustainability Report refers to a number of accomplishments (based on 2018 calendar year perfor- mance, except where noted): • AF&PA member companies achieved a 38.4 percent im- provement in the safety incidence rate from the 2006 base- line, surpassing the 25 percent goal, with 1.62 recordable cases per 200,000 hours worked in 2018 compared with 2.63 in 2006; • AF&PA members adhere to sustainable fiber procure- ment principles, which assure that wood is sourced from suppliers that are committed to sustainable management and harvesting practices, with members procuring 99 per- cent of their total wood fiber through a certified sourcing program—a 12 percent increase from the 2005 baseline; •AF&PA members’ purchased energy use per ton of prod- uct was 13.3 percent lower than the baseline year, surpass- ing the goal to improve energy efficiency by 10 percent, with ember pulp and paper mills self-generated 55 percent of the electricity needed to power their mills in 2018, most of which was renewable using carbon-neutral biomass man- ufacturing residuals; • Members surpassed their goal, reducing GHG emis- sions—measured in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO- 2eq) per ton of product—by 23.2 percent from the 2005 baseline; • AF&PA members’ pulp and paper mill water use per ton of product decreased by 6.9 percent, largely unchanged from recent years and when adjusted to provide greater weight to reductions occurring at mills in water-stressed ar- eas, pursuant to the World Resources Institute (WRI) aque- duct Water Risk Atlas, members reduced process water use by 13.1 percent; and • In 2019, the paper recycling rate was 66.2 percent, fall- ing shy of the 70 percent goal but still nearly a 15 percent increase from the 2005 baseline. TCG Joins TERRA’s Done With IT Program The Electronics Reuse & Recycling Alliance (TERRA), Nashville, Tennessee, has announced that the Technology Conservation Group (TCG), Lecanto, Florida, has joined TERRA’s Done with IT program to provide electronics re- cycling options for businesses and individuals from its two Responsible Recycling (R2) certified facilities in Florida and Kentucky.
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