1 Sonoco Recycling Virginia Recycling Association May 2012

2 Sonoco’s strategy targets a shift in the mix of its business toward faster-growing consumer-related markets. Global Consumer Strategy Global Rigid Paper and Closures Global FlexiblesGlobal ServicesGlobal Plastics

3 Sonoco is a vertically integrated global manufacturer of uncoated recycled paperboard and the world’s largest producer of tubes and cores. Sonoco Industrial Strategy Industrial Converted ProductsPrimary MaterialsSonoco Recycling

Packaging Sustainable Value Network 113-year commitment to Corporate Responsibility Global Consumer and Industrial Packaging $4.5 billion in annual sales - 19,000 employees: 340 plants in 34 countries Named one of the United States’ ‘greenest’ large companies by Newsweek in Named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index in 2011 for a third consecutive year Received Gold Class status for 2011 by SAM (Sustainable Asset Management) Leads Containers and Packaging sector Named one of the most admired companies by Fortune magazine Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2011 Included in KLD’s Domini 400 Social Index for 17 th consecutive year World’s Most Admired Companies® Corporate Sustainability Recognition

Stand-alone recycling division of end user – 4 recycling centers in the State of Virginia Richmond Mill consumes ONLY waste paper 15,000 recycling relationships with major retailers, manufacturers and municipalities Recycles 3.5 million tons per yr nationally Supplier of recycled materials to our corporate mills, and others, to make consumer & industrial packaging Integrated user of paper and plastics to manufacture packaging with recycled content 30 facilities within the USA 6 full-scale single stream MRFs Charlotte, Raleigh, and Jacksonville NC Columbia, Greenville, and Charleston, SC Sonoco Recycling in Virginia

US Fiber Recovery Source: Stan Lancey – AF&PA Chief Economist

7 US Consumption – Fiber Grades Soft demand YTD 2012 Mills have been taking downtime Current condition expected to extend in 2012 Prices for OCC are expected to remain soft unless Export demand shifts

8 US SE Yellow Sheet - OCC

9 US OCC Exports Over 40% of recovered material is moving off shore Top 3 Countries consuming OCC China India Mexico

Exports are unpredictable

Questions Susan Albritton Sonoco Recycling, Inc 1 North Second Street Hartsville, SC