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ImageWelcome to Verdigris. This site provides information about environmental initiatives for the international printing community. It has a range of articles and reference links for printers, publishers, technology providers and anyone else who’s interested.

Articles cover all sorts of topics from explaining the basics of carbon footprinting for printers, to describing how individual printing companies are doing their bit to minimise their impact on the envrionment. This is an educational site that includes reference material and links to industry associations and environmental organisations around the world.

EU Ecolabel for Copying and Graphic Paper Guidelines

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Choose the EU Ecolabel for your Copying and Graphic Paper if you want to show your commitment to a better environment.

Once it's on your products, the EU Ecolabel guarantees low air and water pollution during production, hazardous substances restricted, and use of certified fibres from sustainably managed forests.

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The Economics of Green

Mon, 17/06/2013 - 07:54

medium_Laurel.jpgThe weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner

Ideals are all well and good but at the end of the day businesses exist to make the money that keeps economies afloat. Carbon calculating and offsetting exist in order to enhance the business. As someone at Mondi’s Green Event said earlier this spring, “green is about being better” and that extends to all interpretations about what better means, including more profitable.

Going Green in Guandong

Mon, 10/06/2013 - 08:30

medium_laurel3.jpgThe weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner

Shenzhen Polytechnic based in Guandong province in southern China was founded in 1993 and now caters for over 24,000 students. It has multiple colleges and over one thousand courses covering a range of vocational and academic subjects. The School of Media and Communications has 55 professors and a bevy of kit from Heidelberg, Agfa, Kodak and others. Of the several thousand students who graduate from the school each year, 99% find work in the printing and associated industries. We recently presented ISO 16759 (calculating and communicating the carbon footprint of print media products) to a group of several hundred students and got a quite astonishing response.

Newspaper Plant Efficiency

Mon, 03/06/2013 - 07:43

medium_laurel3.jpgThe weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner

Newspapers tell us they have had a rough ride over the last few years, and yet they still manage to turn a tidy profit. So it is good to hear examples of newspaper publishers greening up their acts, even if they are still pretty isolated events.

Get Your Factories in Shape

Tue, 28/05/2013 - 16:18

medium_Laurel_2012.jpegThe weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner

Energy emissions are obviously fundamental to any carbon footprint calculation, regardless of industry sector. Apart from improving carbon footprint energy management saves money. Manufacturing emissions are generally massive in scale so for the printing and publishing industries it is more than a good idea for manufacturers to promote their environmental initiatives.

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