CASE STUDY Website: Phone: Head Office: Address: paper products. relative environmental impacts products of Cascades versus average North American fine Figures 1and 2are from taken 2011Life the Cycle Assessment and show some of the as well of used as use the recycled fibres.energy genericthe North American papers. These outstanding results are primarily due thetypes of to found to have amuch cent impact, smaller 68per and cent, 46per respectively, as compared to virgin and cent 100per recycled papers. Rolland Enviro100 and Rolland Opaque50were each footprint, followed by Rolland footprint has Opaque50,which asmaller than average the for has spoken and results the are impressive: Rolland Enviro100 has environmental smallest the validatedthird-party to ensure transparency and adherence to rigorous standards.science The papers finetheir incomparison the to AmericanNorth industry average. The assessment was completedIn 2011,Cascades aLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) of environmental the impact of online resources for businesses and consumers to help reduce environmental their impacts. company beyond goes just offering manufactured also products;providethey seminars and employees, customers, and public the informed about environmental their performance. The development. As aproduct manufacturer, made tremendous has also Cascades efforts to keep improvement opportunities with company’s the align which greater goals of sustainable reuse, recycling and recovery company —the constantly to and identify seeks implement participant inreducing emissions into air the and water. While practicing 4R’s the —reduction, is known forCascades its leadership role inpromoting sustainable development and is an active Green Procurement-GreeningYourSupply Chain Loca per centper fewer carbon emissions than competitors their North inthe American market. for processing recycled fibres in its to create mills own fine based which yieldpaper products 85 over North employing America, 11,000workers inover 100facilities worldwide. is responsible Cascades onwith afocus using recycled fibres. has Cascades production units operatingboth in Europe and Founded manufacturing has been in1964,Cascades packaging and paper products for over 45years, About Cascades tion 1-800-567-9872 www.cascades.com/papers 525Abilene Drive, Mississauga, Ontario 2 Rolland Avenue, Saint-Jérôme, Quebec Green Procurement Cascades Fine Papers Group CASE STUDY be used as agricultural fertilizer orpackaging in as fertilizer agricultural as filler manufacturing. used be pass throughthey screens during pulp-making the process.then They form sludge,whichcan shorter during eachmanufacturing cycle. Fibres that are short too eventually get released as of resource this before cutting fibre trees. Each new thehas shape grainof a rice,of and gets paper, it so to makes maximize use sense the before becoming short too to make Fibres reused can up be times to seven for another of cycle manufacturing. life products becomeraw the materials loopcycle of paper fibres,thatso end of Papers Group to life the close seeks recoveredthe Fine Cascades materials?” but fail then to products use made with “Whyrecycling industry: dowe recycle, as identify aparadoxthey of the providesCascades solutions to what your blue bin becomes our forest.” of story this making paper out of paper, Fine PapersCascades Group, notes, “In Business Development Manager at material comes uses that from Cascades own their recycling facilities. As Hellen, Bernard it is Canada’s largest collector and processor of discarded materials, and two-thirds of raw the of paper, cardboard and other discarded materials. With centers 21sorting inNorth America, Inc. Recovery assistsCascades customers on aregional and municipal level with collection the iswhich equivalent the of saving more than 44million trees. 2.6million short used In tons 2010,Cascades of recycled fibres for manufacturing purposes, P aper’s LifeCycle–“YourBlueBinisOurForest” and minerals. fossilfuels thedepletionofnon-renewable from whichresults Figure 1:Damagetonaturalresources, paper manufacturing. the maininfluenceforthisindicatorpulpand Figure typeis 2:ImpactonClimateChange:Energy Figure 3:LifeCycleofFine Paper Products CASE STUDY Cascades productCascades lines. productsCascades have various earned eco-attributes and eco-certifications across all the of Environment aerodynamic alone cent sideskirts achieved a6per savings fuel on average. savings measures across its including fleet, aerodynamictrailers. truck the sideThe on skirts and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of vehicles. implemented In 2009,Cascades fuel several Acquis Route program, implements which to technology improve new performance energy Protection Agency to help carriersreduce consumption. fuel It aparticipant is also inthe of is apartner Smartway the Cascades program implemented by American the Environmental Transport is result the of astringent water recycling and recapture program within various the mills. impressive, as making paper is one of most the water-intensive industrial processes. This success water tonne per of paper produced than Canadian the average. paper industry These results are At 12.4cubic metres of water tonne metric per of paper, consumes Cascades fivetimes less Wa biogasbecause has asteady, competitive price. helps environment, the it provides also an economic safeguard against costs, rising energy Theneeds. biogas energy project not only cent of Rolland the mill’s energy thermal energy, and biogas currently 93per meets Making paper requires large amounts of Rollandthe facility. transports biogas the from landfillsite the to energy. GazMétro compresses and of waste inorder to offer it as renewable gasthe resulting from decomposition the landfill site inSainte-Sophie andcaptures Métro. Waste Management manages the WasteCascades, Management and Gaz exists of because atripartite agreement with project in2005. This unique arrangement reducedbeen since advent the of biogas the emissions of Laurentian the region have HalfSophie, Quebec. of greenhouse the gas decomposing waste inlandfills inSainte- projectenergy that recovers gas from division participates inQuebec’s first biogas Fine PapersCascades Group’s Rolland Green Energy ter Conserva a tion al Certifica tion tions Fine Papers Quebec inSaint-Jérôme, Group, Figure 4:TheRolland Paper Mill,ownedbyCascades CASE STUDY the productionthe loop. paper products office back into very inthe building where use they were discarded, thus closing majorthe tenant Air inthe Miles Tower. This final stepbrings the AirMiles Tower’s discarded Group cent 100 per this sells post-consumer recycled office to paper LoyaltyOne which Inc., is manufactured into office new paper and other paperCascades Fine products. The Papers The recoveredpaper fibre sent bede-inked, is mill to re-pulped,Cascades paper toa and tonnes of cardboard, and tonnes 0.67metric of discarded hand towels from building. this Inc. month,Every tonnes 5metric Recovery collects of Cascades office paper, 2.03 metric into account waste diversion practices. 2 by BESt BOMA the program for environmental standards, and of part that certificationtakes products from 322,557square-foot this office tower. The Air Miles Level certified been Tower by building manager Management Realty Dundee Corp. to manage discarded the paper Miles Tower at 438University Avenue inToronto. Inc. contracted Recovery has been Cascades that takes step extra Cascades to form innovative client relationships, such as one the with Air Environmental (LEED)certification. Design image or maintain own their office eco-certifications, Leadership a such as in and Energy papers fine Businessesthey are if Cascades can choose looking to improvetheir environmental Helping ConsumersClosetheLoop FSC–Forest Stewardship supports which Certification Council responsible of use forest • Processed ChlorineFree from –Certification ChlorineFree the Product Association – • that –Certification EcoLogo identifies environmentally products. friendly Criteria are • Certifications: Elemental ChlorineFree (ECF)–The virginfibre included paper inthe have bleached been • Permanent or paper –Alkaline neutral paper that can resist aging for more than 100 • Biogas –Paper manufactured using agas produced from decomposition the of waste ina • Post-consumer fibre –Fibre that recuperated has been entirely from by paper used • Attributes: Printed onRollandEnviro100Satin80lb. text that FSCMixed product the Sources –Certifies comes from well-managed forests, o cent 100per the post-consumer –Certifies content FSCRecycled of aproduct. o resources. CFPA. Paper manufactured with no chlorine. fibre.the is CanadianCascades only fine paper manufacturer that iscertified. greenhouse gas emissions, water and resources energy consumption and of use recycled papersfine contain no chlorine or derivative. without chlorine, but with achlorine derivative. The fibre Cascades recycled in used part American National Standards Institute –ANSI. years under normal warehousing conditions. Criteria and certifications established the by reduces greenhouse gas emissions. landfill. Biogas, a sustainable energy, and local transported is the mill to by pipeline and consumers through recycling programs. It not does include broke. mill controlled sources and recycled fibre.