(Georgia-Pacific: Atlanta) -- Forty market-selected corrugated box manufacturing operations in Georgia-Pacific’s packaging business have earned Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certification and are authorized to use the SFI Certified Sourcing product label. Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific manufactures and markets tissue, packaging, paper, pulp, building products, and related chemicals.

“The SFI label illustrates our continued commitment to sustainable packaging practices,” says Brian Reilly, senior director, marketing and business development.  “With this label, customers, retailers, and consumers can easily identify SFI-certified packaging.”

To earn the use of the SFI-certified product label, two-thirds of a company’s packaging raw material must originate from mills with third-party–certified wood- and fiber-sourcing systems or recycled-paper sources.

Georgia-Pacific packaging also helps customers reduce total packaging costs and meet sustainability goals through the company’s Packaging Systems Optimization (PSO) Program, which has already identified more than $180 million in cost savings for customers.

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