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Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

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 ■ Sonoco is partnering with the Rainforest Alliance to ensure that the wood products used in its rigid paperboard packages are certified sustainable and originate from responsibly managed forests, where biodiversity is conserved and local communities are supported. Sonoco has secured the Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood Chain-of-Custody certification at 14 Sonoco paper mills—11 in the U.S. and three in Canada. SmartWood certification affirms that the mills are using only responsibly harvested wood products from well-managed forests.

■ The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) and its members want to reach a 50% or higher glass recycling rate by 2013. Rich Crawford, GPI’s board chairman and president of Global Glass Operations for O-I U.S., says that reaching the goal would be “a powerful statement by the glass industry about its intent to work with other stakeholders to improve cradle-to-cradle recycling.” He adds, “Like glass itself, this recycling goal is good for consumers and families as well as the environment.” The energy conserved from a 50% recycling rate would power over 45,000 households for a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s benefits calculator. The EPA says the U.S. had a 28.1% recycling rate for glass in 2007. “One of the outstanding environmental benefits of glass containers is that they are endlessly recyclable and can be made with up to 100% recycled content,” said Joseph Cattaneo, president of GPI. “Reuse of post-consumer recycled container glass is critical to our glass container industry and its environmental and energy efficiency goals.”

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