Printing Substrates: End of Life Options

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DuPont’s Activities

Reducing Environmental Footprint

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Water Conservation
• Fleet Fuel Efficiency
• Air Carcinogens
• Independent Verification of Site Programs

Serving the Marketplace

• Environmentally Smart Market Opportunitiesfrom R&D Efforts
• Products that Reduce Greenhouse GasEmissions
• Revenues from Non-Depletable Resources
• Products that Protect People

End of Life Options

• Landfills  
• Energy Recovery/Incineration
• Recycling
• Biodegradable/Compostable
• Reduce/Reuse

Summaries

• Overall life cycle impact should be taken into account
• Shifting waste from landfill will create savings of energy
  resources
• Recycling targets should be adapted to foster innovation
• Look at long term/big picture
• Measure success via economic prosperity, environmental stewardship, corporate citizenship
• No single country has all the solutions for plastics recovery 

• Align with suppliers/partners equally committed to sustainability
• Pick reasonable targets for the future showing commitment
• Look for product/package designs that encourage sustainability
• Learn customers’ scorecards and how they rate or define sustainability
• Understand the environmental impacts of your product throughout life cycle
• Confirm the science behind each claim and have evidence
• Use appropriate and truthful language, don’t ‘greenwash’