Environment

Is the UK large-format print sector lagging behind when it comes to environmental responsibility? Market data suggests that’s the case as Walter Hale explains.

Is yours one of those businesses that is concentrating less on the environment and more on turnover? If so, it may need to adjust its focus as Walter Hale explains.

Want to stop sending waste large-format display materials to landfill? If there’s the will, there’s a way argues Mike Jackson, MD of Prismm Environmental

Your transport options are changing - fast. So take a steer, and prepare now for what you’re going to drive into not too far down the road.

Next year the BSI will publish the world’s first Circular Economy Standards and the government has already indicated that it will announce new recycling targets to 2020 for paper, aluminium, steel and wood packaging. So has the time come for you to act rather than just talk?

Despite environmental issues falling way down some companies’ lists of priorities, there are suppliers to the large-format sector that are taking it increasingly seriously. Canon Europe is one such – it even has a director of sustainability, Stuart Poore. We asked him to outline the company’s vision and how that might impact PSPs within this sector.

Martyn Eustace of Two Sides - the initiative that promotes the attractiveness and sustainability of print and paper - was recently awarded the Gold Medal by the Paper Industry Gold Medal Association for his longstanding contribution to the industry. Should you be joining him on the quest to make print’s environmental credentials better understood? Here’s his take on the situation…

…is that its lifecycle isn’t as green as it could be. But are things changing? Netherlands-based ColGraphix, a global distributor of products for the digital dye-sublimation sector, believes it could be. Here’s how.