The Verdigris blog: Spreading the sustainability message – part 3
3 September 2018
In our first blog on getting industry associations to encourage wider sustainability awareness, we put the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, at the top of…
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The Verdigris blog: Spreading the sustainability message – part 2
28 August 2018
This is the second part of a short series to provide industry associations with some basic ideas for how to encourage sustainability awareness amongst memberships.…
The Verdigris blog: Spreading the sustainability message – part 1
20 August 2018
We’ve heard it from brands, environmental groups, consumer associations and governments and more recently credit card companies. They are all doing a great job at…
The Verdigris blog: IKEA and plastic straws
30 July 2018
When big brands start taking action, you know it’s serious. IKEA and Starbucks recently announced their intentions to do away with plastic straws and this…
The Verdigris blog: raising sustainability awareness
24 July 2018
Following a recent argument with a bunch of tenants in a block of flats in Brighton UK, the local municipality removed all recycling facilities except…
The Verdigris blog: a licence to print
10 July 2018
As the graphics industry’s technological infrastructure comes together, brand owners are driving project designers and printing companies more assertively. But brand owners themselves are under…
The Verdigris blog: the sustainability conversation
2 July 2018
At the recent DSCOOP in Vienna, a chatfest for users of HP Indigo technologies, HP and partner conversations were many. Participants were keen and even…
The Verdigris blog: Fab India
25 June 2018
Recent government commitments to renewable energy could spell enhanced opportunities for print in India. The print industry everywhere thrives because most of its practitioners are…
The Verdigris blog: European Union bans single-use plastics
18 June 2018
It’s official (almost). Single use plastics are to be banned in the European Union (EU) by 2019, at least they are where sustainable and affordable…
The Verdigris blog: Printing plate price rises
11 June 2018
Agfa and Kodak have recently announced that printing plate prices are to rise by about 10%. It’s just a matter of time before Fujifilm follows…
The Verdigris blog: Expanding print’s reach
4 June 2018
Looking at technology and raw materials processing is only part of the graphics industry’s sustainability picture. It’s easy to forget that if people don’t read,…
The Verdigris blog: Making textile printing more sustainable
29 May 2018
The history of textile printing is a history of innovation, from transferring colours to substrates with carved woodblocks to digitally printed fabrics. In between such…
The Verdigris blog: FSC, PEFC and ISO 38200
21 May 2018
The foresight of both the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) is to be commended. Both organisations…
The Verdigris blog: environmental thinking on a bigger scale
14 May 2018
Imagination, ideas and technological innovation are what progress is all about. We care about what we understand, what we know, so we generally focus only…
The Verdigris blog – monitoring sustainability
8 May 2018
It should be a normal expectation that companies would choose to police their own sustainability performance. And yet we still cannot manage to do it…