by Victoria Jofery | Dec 5, 2013 | General
I want to start this post with a plug for a good friend and fellow CoC blogger, Erin Light, Senior Manager for Sustainability at Unisource Worldwide. Unisource is at one of the world’s leading paper distribution companies and Erin is their in-house expert in...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 2, 2013 | General
While I was, like most Americans, taking some time away from work last week to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, the FSC Board of Directors held its 64th meeting in Nicaragua and appear to have taken some action on the ILO Self-Declaration issue. A quick search tells...
by Victoria Jofery | Nov 1, 2013 | General
In my post earlier this week, I shared some journal articles from the UK printing industry on the subject of the new FSC Online Claims Platform (OCP). They were of interest to me because they echoed much of the quiet grumbling that I have been hearing from FSC...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 31, 2013 | General
Just the other day, I wrote here about a lack of practical information about the impending implementation of FSC’s major database initiative, the Online Claims Platform (OCP). While FSC had certainly put a lot of very sincere energy and effort into...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 29, 2013 | General
The FSC program first began recognizing recycled content in Chain of Custody (CoC) claim systems in 2004. The standard FSC-STD-40-007 was introduced to define the protocols and recycled inputs shortly became an important part of the supply chain for FSC-certified...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 28, 2013 | General
FSC is quietly continuing its work on the Online Claims Platform (OCP): an enormous and potentially very significant overhaul of its Chain of Custody program. While they have certainly made a sincere attempt at outreach and communication, most stakeholders –...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 28, 2013 | General
This post is simply to offer an apology to the community for a rather long (3 months!) gap in posts. The reasons boil down to a combination of summertime vacation travel (Paris in July!); a couple of demanding consulting projects; and a stretch of lovely, late-summer...
by Victoria Jofery | Jul 29, 2013 | General
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Program is in the first stages of a major revision of their standards. You can read about the process here. The first public consultation period will be ending on August 6, so it is important that anyone with suggestions...
by Victoria Jofery | Jul 14, 2013 | General
Almost a year ago, the FSC Policy and Standards unit (PSU) released a new procedures document (FSC-PRO-20-001 v.1-0) which was intended to guide the implementation of one of the new requirements inserted into the latest version of its principal Chain of Custody (CoC)...
by Victoria Jofery | Jul 8, 2013 | General
I was surprised and interested to discover press announcment from PEFC this morning. What caught my eye immediately was the fact that the announcement is issued jointly by PEFC and FSC. Both sites provide links to a one-page statement. Both organization’s...
