{"id":339697,"date":"2010-02-19T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2010-02-19T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:23:51","slug":"south-carolina-publisher-first-to-use-100-percent-certified-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339697","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina publisher first to use 100 percent certified paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 384px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9248\" title=\"FSC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FSC.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Forest Stewardship Council\" width=\"374\" height=\"76\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Forest Stewardship Council<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A South Carolina publisher has become the nation\u2019s first to use 100 percent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fscus.org\/\" >Forest Stewardship Council<\/a> certified paper throughout its operation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcadiapublishing.com\/\" >Arcadia Publishing<\/a>, which produces thousands of local and regional histories, uses about 400 tons of paper each year. The company, known for its <em>Images of America<\/em> pictorial history books, has more than 6,000 titles in print and expects to add another 700 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Those new issues, and reprints of older editions, will now carry the Forest Stewardship Council label, certifying that the paper comes from forests managed to meet the social, economic and ecological needs of present and future generations.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve FSC certification, timber and paper are tracked through the processing chain, from forest to finished product. As such, all involved in that process must be FSC compliant for the end-line product to carry the FSC label.<\/p>\n<p>The FSC certification system has wide support from environmental groups. The system is endorsed by Greenpeace, the National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, and World Wildlife Fund, among others.<\/p>\n<p>By going 100 percent with FSC certified paper, Arcadia Publishing has surpassed industry standards as identified in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpressinitiative.org\/documents\/IndustryTreatisePaper.pdf\" >The Book Industry Treatise on Responsible Paper Use<\/a> by 500 percent, and almost two years ahead of the Treatise&#8217;s stated goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consistent with our commitment to help communities preserve history through local and regional history books, we have extended our efforts to improve the impact we have on our environment,&#8221; Arcadia Publishing CEO Richard Joseph said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica';\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 Green Right Now | Distributed by GRN Network<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Forest Stewardship Council From Green Right Now Reports A South Carolina publisher has become the nation\u2019s first to use 100 percent Forest Stewardship Council certified paper throughout its operation. Arcadia Publishing, which produces thousands of local and regional histories, uses about 400 tons of paper each year. The company, known for its Images of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}