Sustainability is one of Verso’s founding principles. For us, it means creating, respecting and sustaining a balance among economic, social and environmental considerations to promote the responsible, ethical and long-term success of our company. It requires each of us to think about the choices we make and the actions we take every day, and how they affect the future of our business, our people, the communities where we operate, and our planet.
Paper has been around for more than 2000 years and continues to play an important role in the environmental, economic and social health of our country and our planet. It’s made from one of the few truly renewable resources on earth, is used in countless products that make our daily lives better, and supports hundreds of thousands of jobs in the United States alone. Papermaking is a resource-intensive business and at Verso, it’s our challenge to use these resources – trees from responsibly managed forests, energy, water and chemicals – as efficiently as possible and to assure we don’t harm the environment along the way. That’s the core of our sustainability philosophy … making the products our customers want and need while leaving the smallest footprint possible behind. We integrate this philosophy into all that we do and use continuous improvement as the gauge to measure our progress.
Verso is committed to openly sharing our
sustainability performance with our stakeholders. We hold ourselves accountable
for continuous performance improvement and demonstrate our accountability to
others by annually measuring and publicly reporting our progress.
Two PDF versions of our 2019 Sustainability Report Card are available below; one
that is best for viewing the report, and the other for printing the report:
2019 Sustainability Report Card_viewable PDF
(for viewing; can also be printed as spreads)
2019 Sustainability Report Card_printable PDF
(for printing as single pages)
2019 Verso Sustainability Report Card
