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SUSTAINABILITY FROM THE GROUND UP
As the
first paper and forest products industry report to meet the strictest
standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)—and one
of less than 20 reports worldwide published in accordance with all
GRI requirements-International Paper’s 2002-03 Sustainability
Report is a comprehensive detailing of a wide array of current environmental,
forestry, financial and social responsibility data. The report,
The Nature of Our Business, chronicles a number of IP’s accomplishments
including:
* the achievement of a 52 percent reduction against baseline emissions
(as measured by the U.S. EPA)—more than two years ahead of
schedule;
* IP’s paper and packaging mills generation of more than 65
percent of their energy from wood fiber and other biorenewable fuels;
* and through IP’s Special Places in the Forest” program,
the voluntarily management and protection for 639 sites on its forestland
that have unique biological, ecological, geological, cultural or
historic significance.
“International Paper exhibits sustainability from the ground
up, as our products begin with raw materials that are continually
regrown using sustainable forestry practices,” said IP’s
chairman and CEO John Faraci. “Resource renewability and product
reuse are core tenets of sustainability for any business; by combining
both, International Paper is uniquely poised to demonstrate sustainability
enterprise wide.”
In addition to environmental indicators, The Nature of Our Business
covers the company’s global performance and policies on issues
of human rights, labor practices, antitrust and anticorruption,
political participation and community service. It also highlights
the company’s commitment to growing more and more trees as
demonstrated in the planting of more than eight billion native pine
and hardwood seedlings in the U.S. to date. These tree seedlings
cover nearly 13 million acres of forestland, which amounts to a
22 mile-wide forested area that would go around the world.
The Nature of Our Business continues IP’s leadership tradition
of transparency in reporting on its various businesses segments
including paper, packaging and forest products. Headquartered in
the United States, IP has operations in over 40 countries and sells
its products in more than 120 nations. Fortune magazine recently
named IP the No. 1 company for the Forest and Paper Products sector
in its annual report of “America’s Most Admired Companies.”
This marks the second year IP has topped the industry in the independent
ranking.
The complete Nature of Our Business report is available at www.internationalpaper.com.
TACKLING THE IMPACTS OF PRINTING
Anderson Lithograph, A Mail-Well Company,
provides high-end printing services for the Fortune 500’s critical
marketing materials. Anderson recognizes that the company has a
responsibility to the fact that the printing industry, along with
the paper industry, is one of the largest users of fossil fuels
in the U.S.—all to make the brochures, posters and direct mail
pieces encountered on a daily basis.
For the past 15 years Anderson has worked to reduce this environmental
impact with a comprehensive environmental management system and
the innovative use of technology. In 1995 Anderson installed a natural
gas-burning, cogeneration system to generate all electricity and
air-conditioning for its Los Angeles, CA, facility. This system
was then uniquely customized to capture and destroy nearly all fugitive
emissions from the pressroom, creating a bubble-like environment
that improves the working conditions for employees and makes a quantifiable
reduction in air pollution for the Los Angeles community. In 1997
Anderson was certified by the local air quality regulatory body
as a totally enclosed production facility—the only commercial
printer in the U.S., it says, with this distinction.
While air quality is the most significant impact a printer has on
the environment, Anderson’s
environmental management system also addresses the materials used
and the waste it generates. Anderson’s chemical, ink and coatings
compliance program consists of an in-depth annual review and continuous
testing of new materials. As a result, Anderson has reduced the
average petroleum-based content of its conventional ink formulations
from 29 percent to less than 22 percent. Anderson’s inks contain
soy oil, are approved by the American Soybean Association, and are
classified as non-hazardous by the EPA.
The final output of its operations results in a large amount of
waste, and none of it goes to landfill, including any hazardous
materials. Anderson has a “No Landfill Policy” that requires
all recyclable manufacturing materials to be reused—from paper
waste and ink buckets to used fountain solution and cleaning solvents.
Anderson Lithograph has been designated as the largest recycler
in the City of Commerce, CA, for six years in a row.
As a result of these practices, Anderson was the 2003 recipient
of the California Governor’s Environmental & Economic Leadership
Award, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s
Clean Air Award. For more information, visit www.andlitho.com/
sustainability.
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