SCA Awards Nearly $25,000 in Environmental Education Grants to Celebrate America Recycles Day, November 15th Environmental education projects selected in Wisconsin, Arizona, Alabama and New York
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12, 2010 —The North American tissue division of SCA is awarding environmental education grants totaling nearly $25,000 to schools and non-profit organizations in communities where its employees work and live.
The fourth annual awarding of the environmental grants is part of SCA’s commemoration of America Recycles Day, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. Since the inception of the education grant program in 2007, SCA has provided nearly $120,000 in environmental education funding to schools in Arizona, Alabama, New York and Wisconsin.
This year’s grant recipients include a total of 14 elementary, middle and high schools located in Alabama, Wisconsin, Arizona and upstate New York. Individual grants range from $576 to $2,500, with winning applicants each getting the full amount requested for their projects.
Those projects involved recycling programs and equipment, water conservation, lake research, soil study, community recycling events, gardens, solar power experiments, an environmental field trip and an outdoor classroom.
As part of America Recycles Day, SCA also offered free paper and electronics recycling to its employees at all its plants.
“Our commitment to sustainability – a core principle in the way we conduct our business – extends to the communities where our employees live and work,” said Don Lewis, president of SCA’s North American tissue division. “We view these grants as a natural extension of our commitment to producing environmentally friendly Tork® products and driving sustainable business practices.”
About SCA Tissue:
SCA Tissue is one of the three largest producers of Away From Home tissue products in North America, supplying paper napkins, tissues, towels, specialty wipers, dispensers and soap used in commercial settings such as restaurants, office buildings, schools and healthcare facilities.
To make its 100-percent recycled Tork products, SCA Tissue recycles more than 750,000 tons of paper a year, and over 50 percent of those tons are post-consumer. The first American papermaker to earn EcoLogoTM certification for its environmentally sustainable processes and products, SCA Tissue also has earned Green SealTM certification on an assortment of its products, making Tork the largest Away From Home sanitary paper product brand in North America to earn both certifications. More information is available at www.torkusa.com.
About SCA:
SCA, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a global hygiene and paper company that develops and produces personal-care products, tissue, packaging solutions, publication papers and solid-wood products. SCA has many well-known brands, including global brands TENA® and Tork. In 2009, global sales were $14.5 billion (US). SCA conducts sales in 100 countries and has 45,000 employees. More information is available at www.sca.com.
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