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Carbon Balanced Printing making progress
An article from the Verdigris Project.
It’s been a long and slow slog, but for the Carbon Balanced Printing initiative introduced several years ago, the direction of travel is definitely forwards.
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Sustainable textile printing needs a bigger conversation
The environmental impact of textile production is starting to get more attention. Manufacturers and developers within the graphics industry want to sell digital printing systems for direct-to-garment (DtG) and general textile printing,…
Textiles & the Circular Economy
Digital printing of textiles gets a lot of hype these days. Technology developers and service providers alike are searching for the next killer app for digital printing systems. The sustainability of these solutions is touted on the…
Water marking for recycling
Here’s a clever idea: watermark packaging so that a sorting system can be more accurate and recycling processes more efficient. That’s what AIM, the European Brands Association, is encouraging companies to do. AIM represents…
New recyclable packaging materials
One of the biggest difficulties with solving the recycling and pollution problems the graphics industry faces, is where to start. Identifying what’s most important to solve now, what can wait and of course how to solve the problem, as…
A circular economy business model for self-adhesive labels
FINAT the association for the self-adhesive label industry in Europe has announced CELAB-Europe. The organisation is a European consortium set up to develop a circular economy business model for self-adhesive label materials in Europe.…
Environmentally friendly electronics?
Has to be a contradiction in terms, right?
Environmentally friendly print might also be a contradiction in terms for many people. There are still far too folk who don’t get that paper is a sustainable resource, or that print has a…
Consumer pressure for packaging recyclability works
Packaging printers are under constant pressure to improve their environmental footprints. But it’s generally the brands who get it in the neck from consumer groups pressuring for change. That is likely to be the case for a while,…
Drupa drooping and our industry’s sustainability
What a year. What a horrible, horrible year. All the uncertainty, the distress, the loss, and the total erosion of the very foundations on which most peoples’ lives are based. Confidence is fragile and the graphics industry, like so…
Plastics replaced with paper
The oil oligarchy must be getting anxious. Not only are oil prices way down because of the reduction in transportation and the rise in renewable energy, but plastics are being steadily phased out across industries. In the graphics…