Environmental

SCA is increasing its degree of self-sufficiency in electricity for its own industry by acquiring Fasikan Vind AB, a wind power project located on SCA's land in the Bräcke municipality of Jämtland County. The seller is Arise AB.

Stora Enso has launched a new operating model at its logging sites in Finland to improve the vitality and biodiversity of forests. In practice, this is done by reducing the density of planted spruce from 1,800 seedlings per hectare to 1,600 seedlings per hectare. This will increase mixed-species forests, which is one of the overarching objectives of Stora Enso's biodiversity programme and part of the actions both in Finland and Sweden.

UPM supports the third and final phase of the Hiitolanjoki river restoration project in South Karelia, where the dam of the Ritakoski hydropower plant was demolished and the rapid restored. The restoration will allow Ladoga's landlocked salmon to rise to its old spawning waters and improves the status of the aquatic habitat of the river.

An environmental group has accused Weyerhaeuser of violating the Clean Water Act by discharging wastewater and stormwater containing pollutants from its lumber mill near Raymond, Wash.

Lecta chooses EcoVadis for its supplier certification process.​

Metsä Tissue will aim to have fossil free mill fleet by 2030 and accordingly it has stopped using coal as an energy source in its Kreuzau's mill in Germany. Since September 2023 the Kreuzau mill in Germany has been replacing the use of fossil-based lignite by wood pellets in the mills heat production.

The reported milestones align with the Pregis Purpose to Protect, Preserve, and Inspyre and the company's commitment toward its visionary 2K30 objectives.

Rottneros is extending its commitment as an active partner in Sting Bioeconomy's Industri Partner Program. The Industri Partner Program is a platform and catalyst for the crucial green transition aimed at creating a sustainable industry with reduced environmental and climate impact.

Sappi Europe's Kirkniemi Mill in Lohja, Finland, has successfully made the switch from using fossil fuels to renewable energy to fuel the production of the Galerie paper range.

Smurfit Kappa has inaugurated a pioneering purification and wastewater treatment plant in Belgrade, Serbia, the first of its kind in the country. The state-of-the-art plant is located on the site of Smurfit Kappa's Belgrade paper mill, which was acquired in 2019.

Sustainable consumer packaging leader makes progress toward a renewable future.

In response to the summons for Jackson Wijaya to appear before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, Shane Moffatt, Head of the Nature & Food campaign at Greenpeace Canada, said...

Report details LP's resilience and sustainability across its operations and commitment to carbon-negative products.

With five products included in the new classification, LP continues to deliver resiliency, performance and sustainability in the building products industry.

The South Ostrobothnia Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment issued its statement on the Environmental impact assessment (EIA) report for the Kaskinen paperboard mill of Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group. This concludes the mill project's environmental impact assessment procedure.

As reported to the 2023 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), RRD's absolute GHG emissions reduction target of 25% is a total reduction of over 43,000 metric tons of CO2e.

Sofidel, a leading global provider of paper products, has earned a Climate Pledge Friendly badge from Amazon. This label highlights Sofidel's unwavering commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility.

Company partnering with Carbon Direct to deliver scientifically robust, high-quality forest carbon credits.

With a solid action plan and ambitious targets to reduce its carbon footprint by 2030.

The ND Paper mill, located along the Penobscot River in Old Town, was recently fined a sum of $101,400. It was put in place by the Department of Environmental Protection for a 2020 chemical spill which resulted in vast environmental damages.

SCA has been nominated for the German National Sustainability Award, Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis, which is presented in collaboration with the German federal government and several prominent organizations. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, November 23, 2023, in Düsseldorf.

The delivery will take place in March 2024.

Prequalified by How2Recycle®, performance paper meets the repulpability standards for curbside recycling, allowing brands to provide consumers with more sustainable end-of-life outcomes for packaging.

Domtar now accepts all of the retailer's old cardboard containers to fuel production.

Largest producer and exporter of packaging paper and sustainable paper packaging solutions in Brazil, and the only one in the country to offer short, long and fluff fiber pulp to the market, Klabin received approval for its use in Blue Angel products - the world's first environmental label, linked to the German Ministry of the Environment and the RAL gGmbH as competent bodies. Created in 1978, the seal takes a holistic view of a product's life cycle in order to assess its sustainability.