The label industry's new environmental certification
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- Labels,
- Certifications
Cynthia White
The preeminent trade association of the label industry, TLMI, has begun a new program called LIFE. LIFE stands for Label Initiative For the Environment. This certification helps label printers and their suppliers reduce their environmental impact as well as reduce costs with energy and water conservation. LIFE is a precursor for companies who eventually want to become ISO 14001 certified. LIFE also is a help for companies trying to fulfill a high grade on the Walmart scorecard. Learn more about LIFE on the TLMI's website, www.tlmi.com.
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LIFE Initiative
Greenlabelman
Hi Cynthia, thank you for posting about this! Good to see you here. Do you mind posting about Channeled Resources' recycling programs? Your programs are little known outside the industry, in fact most packaging professionals give little thought to labels, not realizing the waste that is produced. It'd be great to share what you're doing as a company and what we're doing as an industry to mitigate this waste.
Release liner recycling
Cindy White...Thank you Greenlabelman for suggesting I write about Channeled Resources efforts to recycle spent liner. It has not been a successful endeavor for us. There are two reasons: people think release liner is not recyclable and most consumer-good companies don't want the hassle of collecting this material
There is a fallacy among many companies that release liner cannot be recycled. It is! It can also, if wide enough, be reused. We have spent the last 10 years trying to convince large consumer-good companies to recycle the release liner left over after the label is applied in their packaging lines. After 10 years we have two companies successfully reclaiming this material that was going to the landfill. Thank goodness we aren't trying to make a living doing this.
Change is hard in any environment. The concept of holding onto this bi-product of pressure sensitive label stock means we have to ask people to change. It has been interesting to me to watch how so many companies struggle getting their people to do the right thing: recycle this material. No one wants to change.
The process is simple. Once the label is applied, wind the release liner back up and collect it either in gaylord boxes or on skids. We pick it up. The toughest part is keeping contaminants out - people tend to think the gaylord boxes are garbage bins. You have to teach them to keep trash out of it.
Bleached paper release liner can be reused if it is over 6" in width. In this instance we ask that generators keep the cores on as you wind the material up. Any paper under 6" or any PET release liner should be placed into gaylords. For more details on how to set up a release liner recycling program, contact Mike White, mwhite@channeledresources.com
Thanks again Greenlabelman!
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