COLUMBIA – The Domtar Paper Company/Marlboro Paper Mill has been recognized for its environmental performance with renewal membership in the South Carolina Environmental Excellence Program, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today.
“Domtar Paper uses its environmental management system to manage its environmental programs as well as to foster continual improvement in its environmental performance,” said Robert W. King Jr., DHEC’s deputy commissioner for Environmental Quality Control. “By using biomass products for energy needs, conserving water and maintaining zero mill production wastes going to its on-site landfill, Domtar has demonstrated support for DHEC and SCEEP's goal of improving South Carolina’s environment.”
King said SCEEP is a voluntary initiative designed to recognize and reward South Carolina facilities that have demonstrated environmental performance through pollution prevention, energy and resource conservation, and the use of an environmental management system. DHEC has supported the program since its creation in 1997.
Bennettsville's Domtar Paper, formerly Weyerhaeuser, was first approved for the program in May of 2004.
For more information, please contact Christine Steagall at (803) 896-8986, or e-mail her at: steagacl@dhec.sc.gov.