DS Smith highlights latest sustainability milestones

The company achieved its target of sourcing 100 percent recycled or chain-of-custody certified papers in the last year.

DS Smith, a global sustainable packaging leader based in London, has announced that it has hit seven of its key sustainability milestones, including meeting targets on the circular economy, forest management, community engagement and water management.

According to the packaging company’s 2021 Sustainability Report, the company trained its 700 designers on the circular economy in the past year, enabling those employees to build circular design principles into packaging designs for customers. Additionally, all of DS Smith’s forests achieved forest management certification and the company maintained its Forest Stewardship Council certification for all of its sites.

The report states that every DS Smith site with more than 50 employees engaged in activities to support the local community in the last year. The company also implemented plans to reduce, reuse and recycle water at 25 of its sites that are at risk of water stress.

The 2021 Sustainability Report also reveals that DS Smith achieved its target to source 100 percent recycled or chain-of-custody certified papers in the last year and ensured all sites accounting for 90 percent of its energy consumption were ISO 50001 certified.

“As we continue to tackle the challenges facing our communities and the environment, achieving a number of our key targets, including forest management, community engagement and designing for a circular economy, shows great progress,” says Keith Ledbetter, managing director of DS Smith North America Packaging and Paper. “By placing sustainability at the heart of all we do, we will continue to reduce our impact on the environment while creating innovative solutions that meet the needs of our customers.”

The company’s full sustainability report can be found online.

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