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Tork and the environment

Toilet paper, hand towels and dispenser napkins may not be the first products to leap to mind when discussing environmentally-friendly solutions. But sustainability and the environment are an integral part of SCA’s operations.

In fact, our environmental work began long before “green” issues became fashionable. We first implemented internal social programmes in the 1950s and began working with the environment in a more structured way in the 1990s, introducing Life Cycle Assessment as our “tool of choice” for monitoring environmental impact..

Since then our efforts have been accredited by third-party organisations all over the world.

LCA assesses the impact that products have on the environment from cradle to grave, or from creation to eventual disposal. At SCA we consider the environment in everything we do and we set ourselves strict targets for sustainability relating to carbon dioxide, water, raw materials sourcing and social considerations.

SCA’s third-party accreditation timeline:

  • Tork is awarded EU clean marine awardsJune 2004: SCA won the EU Clean Marine Award for its low-emission logistics policy.

 

  •  October 2006: WWF gave SCA Tissue Europe the highest score compared with other tissue manufacturers in terms of its environmental sustainable environmental management.

 

  • June 2007: SCA was named the second greenest company in the world in the Green Leaders Global Top Ten, published by the UK’s World's most ethical companiesIndependent newspaper in conjunction with Ethical Investment Research Services. SCA was beaten only by Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s leading manufacturer of wind turbines.

 

  • December 2007: SCA’s corporate responsibility reporting was rated the best in the pulp and paper industry by WWF. The company scored the highest marks in WWF’s 2007 Corporate Responsibility Reporting in the Pulp and Paper Industry review.

 

  • March 2008:  SCA was highly placed in a survey on Swedish companies and human rights in a poll by Amnesty Business Group, part of Amnesty International in Sweden.

 

  • January 2009: SCA featured in the Corporate Knights  and Innovest Global 100 list of the world’s 100 Most Sustainable Corporations for the fifth year running. Corporate Knights list SCA as one of the most sustainable companies in the world

 

  • April 2009: SCA was named one of the most ethical companies in the world for the second year running by the Ethisphere Institute in New York.

Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

  • September 2009: SCA retained its place in both the Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability WORLD Index. The company received outstanding scores in a number of areas including brand management, environmental management systems and human capital development.