Location: Newtown
Website: http://www.curtispackaging.com/

In 2007, Curtis Packaging became the first deluxe printing and packaging company in North America to go 100% carbon neutral and was the first company in its industry to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, the world’s most comprehensive system for guiding forest management to sustainable outcomes.

The company also purchases wind energy certificates to offset 100% of the electricity used at its facilities. Curtis Packaging structured this purchase to include more than 1 million kilowatt-hours of CTCleanEnergyOptions, which helped its host community, Newtown, earn a free solar electric system under the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund’s Clean Energy Communities program.

The company’s remaining carbon dioxide emissions are being neutralized by investing in the Mynydd-Y-Garnedd forestry project in Wales and the Rhine-Ruhr methane capture project in Germany. Curtis Packaging is an active member of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.