Clearwater Paper Publishes First Corporate Social Responsibility Report

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Clearwater Paper Corp., Spokane, Wash., USA, has published its initial Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. Clearwater notes that the CSR will serve as a benchmark against which to measure its progress on several key metrics. The report pledges resource investments in strategies and projects that reduce the company’s environmental footprint associated with water, air, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and energy.

"Sustainability has been part of our DNA for more than a century," said Linda Massman, president and CEO of Clearwater Paper. "This report formalizes our long-demonstrated commitment to doing business in a way that is good for people, good for the environment, and good for the future of the company."

Specifically, Clearwater Paper’s CSR outlines the company’s goals to reduce water consumption by 20%, energy consumption by 15%, manufacturing solid waste to landfills by 20%, and greenhouse gas emissions by 15% by 2017.

"Developing and issuing our first CSR gave us the opportunity to share information about our innovative historical projects as well as define future sustainability expectations," said Marv Lewallen, VP of environmental, energy, and sustainability. "Sharing future CSR’s will be an exciting and constructive method in which to show progress against our goals and demonstrate our successes in all aspects of our sustainability efforts."

Most of Clearwater Paper’s carbon emissions are related to consumption of purchased energy used to produce paper products at 15 manufacturing locations in the U.S. and Canada. The company produces consumer tissue, away-from-home tissue, parent roll tissue, machine glazed tissue, bleached paperboard, and pulp. It is a supplier of private label tissue to major retailers and wholesale distributors. This includes grocery, drug, mass merchants, and discount stores.

The full CSR report is available online.