Paper Sector Meeting Summary

The Paper Sector had its first meeting on April 26-April 27 in Ft. Worth, Texas. This meeting served as an official launch for the paper sector. Over the two day meeting, the sector discussed and created a timeline for contributing to the Level 1 SMRS, identified...

For Tetra Pak, Change Comes in All Packages

Unlike most manufacturers participating in GFTN, Tetra Pak does not purchase timber or any other raw forest materials. Instead, its food and liquid containers, which offer an alternative to traditional glass and metal containers, require timber fibre that has already...

TSC to Present at LCM 2011 Conference

A number of researchers from TSC have been invited to present at the Life Cycle Management Conference in Berlin in August. Their paper, “The Sustainability Consortium: A stakeholder approach to improve consumer product sustainability” was also accepted for publication...

Food, Beverage & Agriculture Releases Three New Whitepapers

Three whitepapers from the Food, Beverage & Agriculture Sector Working Group can be found on their page on the TSC site. The titles of the whitepapers are: Geospatial Climate Data Regional Corn Modeling at a High Resolution Scale: A Yield Based Approach and Blue...