Should companies make greening the publishing process a priority?
This is the result of an online survey we conducted earlier this year. And, partly as a result of your feedback, we launched a one-day event in Greening the Supply Chain, which ran for the first time on 5 July and is next scheduled for 5 December. This new course is all about showing you how you can reduce your impact on the environment AND save time and money. According to Phil Harris of Impact Publishing, one of the tutors for the new course: “Our paper consumption is increasing despite other alternatives for communicating such as PDF, the internet and mobile devices. “In the UK alone, in excess of 12.5 million tonnes of paper and board are printed each year. The combined CO2 output for manufacturing and printing this volume of substrate amounts to over 32 million tonnes. “If as a whole print consumption were reduced by just 15%, 4.8 million tonnes of CO2 would be prevented from entering the atmosphere that’s the equivalent weight of 9,600 jumbo jets! Water, electrical and landfill r
