Profile Products announces commitment to sustainability

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.  — Profile Products announced a series of initiatives that focus on sustainable production methods and educational outreach.

Profile is replacing all bags and wraps with recycled-content packaging across all product lines, including Erosion and Vegetative Solutions (EVS), Turface, Golf and Horticulture. The new packaging is going into production immediately.

Jim Tanner, the CEO and president of Profile Products, announced the changes in a letter to Profile’s distributors.

“By 2020, there will be 20 billion metric tons of plastic in landfills,” Tanner said. “We’re preventing more plastic from sitting in landfills by using packaging that is as environmentally friendly as the product it holds. We’re doing our part to reduce our environmental footprint and we hope others will join us.”

In the letter, Tanner also outlined the extensive projects and partnerships Profile has already developed that emphasize environmental stewardship, including:

• Restoring the environment through revegetation efforts, including sequestering more than 100 million tons of carbon, creating products that have recycled 3.5 billion pounds of wood and paper, removing 125 million tons of sediment from entering waterways and restoring more than 1.5 million acres of land
• Using Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified papers and incorporating low/no Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) inks
• Partnering with freight providers who emphasize efficiency and sustainability while decreasing carbon dioxide emissions
• Providing more than 600 Lunch & Learn seminars a year, impacting more than 10,000 engineers, specifiers and agencies
• Launching a plant expansion in Conover, North Carolina that will triple Profile’s greenhouse facilities for research and development of ecofriendly products and add on a new 2,500-square-foot training center

Read the full letter from Jim Tanner here.