Company inspires environmental responsibility throughout 10 years of operating in North America
PHILADELPHIA — Celebrating 10 years in North America this year, SCA is honoring the past, present and future of environmental education this America Recycles Day, Nov. 15, 2011, with its 2011 Environmental Education Grant program. SCA is awarding more than $25,000 to 12 schools in the four regions where it has tissue operations: Alabama, Arizona, New York and Wisconsin.
Above: SCA Representatives Mike Dillon (second from left) and Nancy Taylor (far right) present a check to Clayton Elementary School in Neenah, Wis. for a milk carton recycling program.
“SCA has been operating in North America for more than 10 years, and sustainability has always been a core principle in the way we conduct our business,” said Don Lewis, president of SCA Tissue North America. “Our grant program helps continue our legacy of responsibility by inspiring students to be environmental stewards of the next generation. Teaching them to understand the importance and principles of sustainability will help them ‘walk the talk’ as adults.”
This is the fifth year SCA is awarding environmental education grants to elementary, middle and high schools in the regions where its employees work and live. SCA has awarded nearly $150,000 in funding to approximately 70 schools since the inception of the program in 2007. Individual grants this year range from $960 to $2,500 and fund environmental initiatives such as recycling programs and equipment, compost sites, outdoor classrooms, studies on alternative energy and environmental field trips.
As part of this year’s commemoration of America Recycles Day, SCA will be visiting some of the past grant winners to see the evolution and influence of projects made possible by the grant program.
Above: A student from Sand Creek Middle School in Albany, N.Y., a 2010 Environmental Education Grant winner, shows the school’s recycling program progress to Terry Miller (left) of SCA.
Extending a commitment to sustainability
Paper recycling is a key element in SCA’s tissue operations. Since SCA entered North America in 2001, it has used more than 12 billion pounds of recycled paper to make its 100-percent recycled Tork® products. Each year, SCA uses over 750,000 tons of wastepaper, of which more than 60 percent on average is post-consumer waste.
SCA’s sustainability commitment also extends beyond paper recycling to include a holistic approach to environmental stewardship throughout its processes, products and employees. To further commemorate America Recycles Day, SCA is offering its employees free recycling of paper and electronic items at its plants.