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SUSTAINABILITY
WHAT SUSTAINABILITY
PRACTICES CAN DO FOR YOU
When you realize the significant cost savings that
can be achieved by preserving natural resources,
sustainability means more than just doing the right thing.
By Rachel Duran
Is your company standing on the sidelines, eager to enter the sustainability game but not crazy about the perceived payback time? Are your customers increasingly inquiring about the sustainable practices you are
implementing in your processes and you are unable to
offer up much? The fact is once you begin looking it
doesn’t take long before opportunities for following sustainability measures will reveal themselves.
For Urban Forest Recyclers (UFR), a manufacturer of
filler flap containers that hold 30 eggs which are found in
the Costcos of the world and in food service operations,
the company found an opportunity to be environmentally
friendly by using methane gas from a landfill to power its
processes, gas which was being burned off and wasted.
UFR, which uses mainly recovered newspaper as its
raw material, located to a site adjacent to a landfill in
Newton County, Ind. The landfill is run by Republic
Services Inc. The location puts UFR in a central location
to the egg producers in the country. One of UFR’s
customers mentioned the eco-friendly opportunity in
Newton County to the company officials.
