We have always tried to be as green as possible within our own office, but over the last year we have become even more aware of the impact our industry makes and decided to look into greener options. Happily, many of our existing print suppliers are doing their utmost to be as environmentally friendly as possible.

Our key printer, RCS have gained the coveted ISO 14001 environmental standard, and are also FSC certificated. What this means is that every sheet of paper used can be traced back to its source. Certification means that many more trees are planted than are felled each year by the foresters supplying the paper mills. The paper used is also processed using Elemental Chorine Free Technology to avoid the production of damaging toxins. The inks used are based on clean vegetable oil and supplied in eco friendly packaging and onsite mixing technology allows them to produce pantone colours as required, to pin-point accuracy, reducing wastage to almost zero.

When it comes to electricity usage, RCS have introduced a whole raft of energy saving measures, from lights that turn themselves off when the sun shines to more efficient motors. They also source their electricity from predominantly renewable sources. It goes without saying that they recycle as much as possible, and everything they are unable to reuse is graded into a range of categories and recycled or disposed of responsibly.