All of Weyerhaeuser Company's U.S. kraft paper bag plants have earned Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) certification and are authorized to use the SFI Certified Sourcing product label. Weyerhaeuser is one of the first retail packaging companies to receive this certification.

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"Consumers want environmentally sustainable packaging," says Tom Gideon, senior vice president, Containerboard Packaging & Recycling. "Our paper bags are recyclable and our grocery sacks contain 40 percent post consumer recycled content. This third-party, SFI certification offers further assurance that our forests are managed using sustainable forestry standards and that our paper manufacturing operations have certified procurement systems in compliance with the procurement provisions in the SFI standard."

To earn the use of the SFI-certified procurement label, two-thirds of a company's bag raw material must originate from mills with certified wood fiber procurement systems or recycled paper sources. Weyerhaeuser exceeds this standard with 75 percent of its bag plants' raw material qualifying toward the 2/3 requirement.

The SFI program is a comprehensive system of principles, objectives and performance measures developed by professional foresters, conservationists, scientists and other stakeholders from outside the industry. The program combines the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees with the long-term protection of forest biodiversity, wildlife, plants, soil and water quality and other forest values. It also has a unique procurement system process for manufacturing operations that require outreach and promotion of SFI sustainable forestry principles to all outside sources of wood fiber and to monitor compliance with Best Management Practices (BMPs). For more information: http://www.sfiprogram.org/

Weyerhaeuser operates bag plants across the United States, and has supplied paper bags to retail store customers for more than 40 years. For more information: http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/ourbusinesses/pulppaperpckging/kraftpaperbags/paperorplastic

Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest forest products companies, was incorporated in 1900. In 2006, sales were $21.9 billion. It has offices or operations in 18 countries, with customers worldwide. Weyerhaeuser is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities. Additional information about Weyerhaeuser's businesses, products and practices is available at http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/.

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