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LPI: Recycle is The Company Core <br />Liberty Paper's commitment to environmental sustainability and product stewardship is at the <br />company's core, says LPI environmental engineer Tim Swanson: <br />"We are a 100 - percent - recycled paper mill. We've never cut down a tree to make paper, but we choose to go above and be- <br />yond. We prove our claims of environmental sustainability through certifications and third -party audits. We have Forest Stewardship <br />Council (FSC) Chain -of- Custody certification, which traces the path of products from sustainable forests through the supply chain. <br />"We are 1 S 140001 - certified. ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization. It's a voluntary approach to <br />environmental regulation. Certified organizations set their own targets and performance measures. This provides our stakeholders with <br />proof that our environmental impact is being measured and continually improved. <br />"One of our ISO goals is to reduce water and electricity usage, since we are a large user of both. We met and exceeded our <br />goals to reduce electricity use by 5 percent and water use by 20 percent per ton of paper. Finding alternative uses for the material we <br />can't use to make paper is also part of our ISO 14001 certification. So is our environmental reading program in the Becker schools, <br />among other things. [see main story] <br />"We aren't required to be ISO - certified. This is one of many things that we do at LPI because it's the <br />right thing to do, not because we have to." <br />12 <br />