Forest Certification in the In-plant

This is just one example of how the Corporate Social Responsibility phenomena has turned what was once just a preference for certified paper into a policy in some organizations.

In my article from the January 2008 issue of In-Plant Graphics, I explained how the FSC is regarded as the gold standard among forest certification systems due to its Triple Bottom Line approach, which looks beyond just environmentally sound forest management practices, into the social and local economic impacts to communities and people impacted by logging activities. In this article, I will concentrate on FSC, since it is the most stringent—and therefore sought-after—of all chain-of-custody (COC) labeling systems.