WPA Goes South, Cont'd from Page 13
Many of the NAPA members attending are
also WPA members and have attended
WPA annual meetings. The attendees
were encouraged to join the WPA and
attend the annual meeting – translation
will be provided.
Two Rialto City Council members spoke to
the group about letting their concerns be
known at the local level. The City Council
seemed very supportive of the pallet
industry and expressed willingness to
work with the local companies to change
laws, rules, and ordinances to be more
pallet company friendly.
NWPCA Sponsors the PCR to
Benchmark Environmental
Performance of Wooden Pallets
UL has announced the publication of the
first-ever Product Category Rules (PCR)
for wooden pallets. The PCR may be used
to benchmark the environmental impacts
of wooden pallets, and sets a new
precedent for life cycle assessments for
pallets made from other materials.
(EPDs).
“Our members in the wooden packaging
industry are dedicated to environmental
issues. Using this PCR for wooden pallets,
we can better understand and
communicate the environmental impacts
of wooden pallets over their lifecycle,”
Product Category Rules (PCRs) are a set said Jordan Piland, NWPCA board chair
of requirements and guidelines used for and president of Atlas Pallets.
conducting and reporting environmental
life cycle assessments of a particular “At any given time, 1.8 billion wooden
category of products. The PCR evaluates pallets are carrying goods across the U.S.
environmental performance including alone. In light of their great volume and
aspects like carbon emissions, resource prevalence, this new PCR has tremendous
depletion and energy use, to name a few. opportunity to impact the environment
PCRs ensure that products of the same by encouraging manufacturers of wooden
function are evaluated consistently for a pallets to understand the life cycle
meaningful comparison of results via impacts of their products and ultimately
environmental product declarations implement
changes
to
improve
JULY 2019