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Wisconsin-based Green Bay Packaging and Pennsylvania-based Yerecic Label have each received TLMI Environmental Leadership Awards, which were held at the association’s Annual Meeting in Dana Point, CA.
This award recognizes one association supplier and one association converter member that have each consistently demonstrated a commitment to progressive environmental practices across a range of areas, including solid waste reduction, recycling, waste or energy recovery, the implementation of new ‘clean’ technology and/or processes and the implementation of an education program.
Both Yerecic Label and Green Bay Packaging have also achieved TLMI L.I.F.E. (Label Initiative for the Environment) Certification. L.I.F.E. is the only certification program tailored to the narrow web label and packaging industry.
“This is TLMI’s 12th year in presenting these awards. The awards were created in order to recognize companies that are demonstrating leadership in the implementation of environmental awareness and best sustainability practices in the North American label and packaging industries,” says Calvin Frost, TLMI Environmental Chair Committee. “I want to congratulate Green Bay Packaging and Yerecic Label for their high level of excellence in environmental stewardship. As brand owners and packaging buyers continue to enforce environmental transparency down the entire packaging supply chain, it is critical that industry converters and suppliers gain recognition for their commitment, and the TLMI Environmental Awards and the association’s L.I.F.E. Certification program enable our members to do that very effectively.”
Yerecic Label, a converter that has created a sustainability culture at every label of its organization by using the L.I.F.E. environmental management system as a guide to continuous improvement, received the Converter Award for Environmental Leadership.
The company prides itself on being an industry pioneer in the adoption and implementation of best sustainability practices and is currently one of the few 100% landfill-free operations in the North American marketplace. Yerecic Label has additionally reduced chemical waste, replacing solvent platemaking with DuPont’s Cyrel system, and all materials are recycled using DuPont’s TR-3 recycling program.
Green Bay Packaging received the Supplier Award for Environmental Leadership. The company is a TLMI supplier member that created a “Green Team” more than a decade ago, enabling the company to continuously measure change over what Green Bay employees refer to as a “Decade of Sustainability Improvement.”
Through a coordinated effort, the company’s Green Team defined waste streams that could be recycled, either traditionally or thermally. Over the course of 10 years, byproduct sent to landfills has been reduced by 99%, and Green Bay additionally installed a centrifuge to treat and reduce process waste water by 50%.
This award recognizes one association supplier and one association converter member that have each consistently demonstrated a commitment to progressive environmental practices across a range of areas, including solid waste reduction, recycling, waste or energy recovery, the implementation of new ‘clean’ technology and/or processes and the implementation of an education program.
Both Yerecic Label and Green Bay Packaging have also achieved TLMI L.I.F.E. (Label Initiative for the Environment) Certification. L.I.F.E. is the only certification program tailored to the narrow web label and packaging industry.
“This is TLMI’s 12th year in presenting these awards. The awards were created in order to recognize companies that are demonstrating leadership in the implementation of environmental awareness and best sustainability practices in the North American label and packaging industries,” says Calvin Frost, TLMI Environmental Chair Committee. “I want to congratulate Green Bay Packaging and Yerecic Label for their high level of excellence in environmental stewardship. As brand owners and packaging buyers continue to enforce environmental transparency down the entire packaging supply chain, it is critical that industry converters and suppliers gain recognition for their commitment, and the TLMI Environmental Awards and the association’s L.I.F.E. Certification program enable our members to do that very effectively.”
Yerecic Label, a converter that has created a sustainability culture at every label of its organization by using the L.I.F.E. environmental management system as a guide to continuous improvement, received the Converter Award for Environmental Leadership.
The company prides itself on being an industry pioneer in the adoption and implementation of best sustainability practices and is currently one of the few 100% landfill-free operations in the North American marketplace. Yerecic Label has additionally reduced chemical waste, replacing solvent platemaking with DuPont’s Cyrel system, and all materials are recycled using DuPont’s TR-3 recycling program.
Green Bay Packaging received the Supplier Award for Environmental Leadership. The company is a TLMI supplier member that created a “Green Team” more than a decade ago, enabling the company to continuously measure change over what Green Bay employees refer to as a “Decade of Sustainability Improvement.”
Through a coordinated effort, the company’s Green Team defined waste streams that could be recycled, either traditionally or thermally. Over the course of 10 years, byproduct sent to landfills has been reduced by 99%, and Green Bay additionally installed a centrifuge to treat and reduce process waste water by 50%.