Agenda - Corrugated Packaging Council

Attachment A
MEMO
• Coordinate our Wal-Mart communications / status; make the
information accessible. (Several updates have been issued to the
committee.)
• Develop technical articles regarding wax replacement to promote its
use. (Awaiting FBA study of wax alternative implementation.)
5. FINANCIAL UPDATE (see Appendix B)
For the period ended August 31 st our fund balance stood at $226,412.
However, this did not reflect FBA and AICC’s 2008 contributions that
were billed in September. Overall, we project we have committed all of
our $600,000 budget even though actual payments by year-end may not
reflect this total due to lateness of LCA work and the communication
program that cannot get underway until we receive the report.
6. PROGESS REPORT ON DELIVERABLES
• LCA Report – John Heckman of Five Winds gave an update on the
current status. The report has been delayed due to the inability to
address environmental discharges of mixed product mills which
make up over 40% of the total containerboard output. It has been
discovered recently that if we included like products (unbleached
kraft) we could get to slightly over 80% which Five Winds felt was a
high enough percentage to meet the approval of the expert review
panel. The committee agreed that work should move ahead on this
basis.
o Key mill trend analysis – Since the LCA will represent only one
point in time, and preliminary results show the bulk of
environmental impact is at the mill level, Reid Miner of NCASI
has investigated developing trend lines using 2002, 2004 and
2006 data. All of the major trend emission and energy trend
lines were positive and will be used to tell our story. Water
usage and effluent were steady to slightly up and the group
challenged us to look further back with these items since the
90’s saw major focus on improving these areas.
o Carbon Footprint Calculator – A carbon footprint calculator
based on the industry average LCA result was approved and
will be designed and made available to all industry members
through the corrugated.org website.
o LCA Model hosting & use – We specified one of the LCA
deliverables would be a model that individual industry
members could use to forego the expense of retaining an
outside provider to conduct their company specific LCA. As
long as they are part of our original dataset they will be able to
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