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Earth Friendly Packaging

Green Packaging

Paper manufacturing historically has been a large consumer of natural resources and producer of tons of waste. According to estimates made by the Environmental Defense Fund, it takes 3 tons of wood and 19,075 gallons of water to produce a single ton of virgin paper. This process also creates over two thousand pounds of solid waste.

Labels & Cases

Committed to using our resources responsibly, Parducci uses 100% post-consumer recycled paper for all of our labels. Stationery, and other printed materials are also printed on recycled paper. Our case boxes are made from recycled, chlorine-free corrugated cardboard. The chlorine bleaching process, used to make paper products whiter, stronger and more durable is quite harmful to the environment and can release toxic materials into water supplies.

Inks

Our materials are printed with soy and water-based inks. Petroleum-based inks and the heavy metals they contain contaminate soil and groundwater. Soy-based inks are usually made from non-toxic soybean oil which is a renewable resource. It is an ongoing challenge to get the look, feel and performance we need in printed materials (particularly labels), and still be "green." We are fortunate to have printing vendors that make an extra effort to meet our needs. Of course, the most earth-friendly printing is none at all, so we are always looking at ways to reduce the amount of our printed materials.

Learn More About Earth-Friendly Packaging...

Monadnock Paper Mills: Envi PC 100 Wet-Strength Label Paper (our wine labels)
- Carbon Neutral Facility
- 100% Green Power (Green-e Certified)
- FSC & Rainforest Alliance Certified Paper
- ISO 14001:2004
New Leaf Paper (their Encore 100 is our copy paper)

Reduce, Reuse Recycle

Our recycling program diverts from landfill approximately 12,000 lbs. of packaging per year (cardboard, plastic wrap, glass and other waste).

The U.S. EPA estimates about 31 percent of all municipal solid waste in 2005 was generated from packaging-related material. This breaks down to about 39 million tons of paper, 13.7 million tons of plastics and 10.9 million tons of glass.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded that recycling efforts reduced the country's carbon emissions by a net 49 million metric tonnes in 2005

The United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ (EPA) has found that recycling paper causes 35% less water pollution and 74% less air pollution than making virgin paper.