Proving Yourself in a Sustainable World

Liner recycling is another area in which Spear is a leader. "We have developed liner recycling programs for all our major customers and we've been on the front side of that," Muenzer claims. "We don't actually recycle the liner ourselves, but we have established relationships with firms that do the recycling. We'll go in and jointly audit the facilities." Muenzer states that the amount of Spear's liner at its customers' facilities being recycled is approaching 80 percent. "And, as you can imagine, that's our number one waste by-product as a pressure-sensitive label printer," he says. "So that again is tens of millions of tons of material being eliminated from landfill."