Sustainability is proving to be a key driver to recruitment, according to a recent Bain & Company survey. According to the survey, employees care more now about sustainability than they did three years ago. In fact, two-thirds of the respondents indicate that sustainable business is important to them. And there’s even more to the story. …
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Pratt Industries’ mill on Staten Island has just passed a major milestone – producing its 5 millionth ton of 100% recycled paper! Since it began operations in 1997, the mill has saved 85 million trees and prevented the equivalent of 400 million truck loads of waste from being landfilled! And it has produced enough paper to stretch …
Pratt Industries did more than just participate in Earth Day celebrations 7 weeks ago; we created new ways to celebrate the good work of our employees, our customers, and our company, protecting the environment all over the United States. One of our facilities took a unique approach that delighted the employees AND a special customer. …
Pratt Industries is being featured in a Fortune magazine article hitting the newsstands on Monday. The prestigious business journal is devoting an entire section to stories and profiles highlighting the Future of Sustainable Packaging – and how innovation is reshaping an industry that touches everyone. In short, it’s a perfect vehicle for our company, which …
Pratt Industries celebrated Earth Week with events across the country including a ceremonial ground breaking and tree planting at the site of the soon to be constructed solid-waste transfer station at the company’s corporate campus in Conyers, Ga. Pratt is constructing this transfer station as part of a long-term public-private partnership between the company and the …
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In Washington D.C., the United States Postal Service asked Pratt to produce an Earth Day themed display in the lobby of their administrative headquarters. Pratt recently won a contract to supply the USPS with some of their shipping boxes, and the service wanted us to set up a display that showed our 100% recycled message …
Earth day is coming up on April 22nd and there are many ways to celebrate to show your support for the environment. On April 22, 1970, the first official Earth Day, an estimated 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and classrooms to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment and show their commitment to protecting …
In 2005, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition® (SPC), an industry working group dedicated to a more robust environmental vision for packaging, completed the Definition of Sustainable Packaging. This definition represents an important first step in articulating a common understanding of the term “sustainable packaging.” It provides a common vision and a framework for understanding activities directed toward improving packaging. This definition has …
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Sustainability awareness has come a long way in recent years…and so, too, has the methodology in ensuring claims made are claims verified. And no sustainability initiative in the business community has received more attention than the Walmart Packaging Scorecard. Introduced in 2006, the scorecard included measurements for GhG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions, Recycled Content, and Cube …
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The ten most common challenges sustainable businesses face were presented in a previous article, “Top 10 Sustainability Hurdles for Businesses in 2013“. Last week, we discussed getting over the first five hurdles in “Overcoming Business Sustainability Hurdles – Part 1“. This is the second part of the series and explores overcoming the remaining five hurdles. …
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