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The European Union’s Green Deal
3 February 2020
The EU is investing €100 billion to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050.
COP25 – what did we learn?
28 January 2020
What did we learn from the recent UN Climate Change Conference?
Print volumes still on the slide
20 January 2020
Newspapers are struggling still as they wrestle with new business models that shift from printed copy sales to digital delivery.
Bottom-up progress on climate change mitigation
11 November 2019
After initial reluctance printers are getting on board with green practices.
Recycling times are changing
4 November 2019
Deinking and recycling methods must keep pace with a changing industry.
HP investing more into water based inks
28 October 2019
HP has announced a $200 million investment into furthering its water based printing technologies.
Print the Change co-operative
22 October 2019
A new cooperative for green printing has been set up for sheet fed offset printing companies.
Human health as well as the planet’s
9 September 2019
We worry a lot about the environmental impact of the graphics industry but the health of people working at the job of printing and publishing…
Unintended consequences
3 September 2019
The graphics industry is at the heart of the recycling industry, but when it comes to environmental accountability, how solid are its credentials?
Offset and the environment
6 August 2019
We need major players to take a much more active environmental leadership role.
The beast that is HP Inc.
15 July 2019
HP Inc is without doubt the biggest player in the graphics industry. Net revenue in 2018 was a cool $58.3 billion.
European Union reclassifying papers
8 July 2019
The EU has a special board that, among other things, determines evaluation criteria for the EU Ecolabel for products and services.
Ricoh awards sustainability prize
24 June 2019
It’s surprising that there are so few sustainability prizes that award cash, but Ricoh is leading the way, especially in the USA.