Port Townsend Paper Corp.
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2024)
Reporting Period: 2024
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Environmental
Environmental Achievements
- Switched from a batch process to a continuous process, increasing plant capacity from 480 to 720 oven-dried tons of pulp per day.
- Shut down the Messing-Durkee digester which generated kraft pulp from sawdust.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Wastewater discharges containing dangerous chemicals (benzo(a)anthracene, chlordane, pentachlorophenol) into area waterways.
- Lack of space to stockpile glass for recycling, resulting in increased landfill fees.
Mitigation Strategies
- New permit limits on dangerous chemicals.
- New studies of pollutants in Port Townsend Bay.
- Requirements to minimize spills of pulping liquors and turpentine.
- Odor minimization study.
- Stopping glass recycling and requiring disposal in household trash.