DAYTON–Columbia Pulp is a finalist for the 2020 PPI Awards "Environmental Leadership" from Sustainable Forestry to Waste Management. The winners will be announced at the PPI Awards Dinner at the Sheraton Lisboa Resort in Lisbon, Portugal on March 10, the second evening of the European Conference.

The winner who is a mill owner or mill owner and supplier team, in this category, must demonstrate an ability to significantly improve the local environment through a concerned and planned change in their waste treatment and reduction processes.

With the continued decline of landfill as an option for mill waste, the operation must have adopted new ways of reducing and reusing waste. Capture and treatment solutions have been at the forefront of mill's sustainability measures to reduce the impact upon the local environment.

Judges will base their decision on several qualifiers, a positive result from the implementation of new sustainability processes designed to reduce waste; examples of waste reduction and treatment processes and procedures that have led to a positive local environmental impact; and evidence of successful introduction of new waste reduction measures. They will also include information from any new evidence of increased waste reduction through new processes, procedures or machinery; case study examples of how the processes, procedures and products have led to a reduction in mill waste; and demonstration proof that the new sustainability processes are in line with the wider organization sustainability targets.