Green Team - Thoughts on Going Green
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on December 8th, 2008
Three companies spanning more than a century of printing services - Edwards Brothers, VistaPrint, and Sandy Alexander - recently shared their green initiatives with WhatTheyThink. Learning from the successes of others makes it possible for companies to move faster on the path of sustainability.
John Edwards, President/CEO of Edwards Brothers (founded 1893),
Robert Keane, President/CEO of VistaPrint (founded 1995),
and Mike Graff, President of Sandy Alexander (founded 1963) all have implemented a variety of green projects and processes. Here is what they had to say.
I like the part shared by John Edwards of Edwards Brothers: Here it goes.
The bottom line? Green can be green if you do it right. We’ve been doing it for 50 years because it makes financial sense. We’ve gotten better at tracking waste. We’ve enhanced our efforts significantly in the last five years and team members are on board and enthusiastically do what it takes to segment waste and recycle it properly because deeper segmentation of waste yields a higher return. Ultimately we’re still trying to reduce the amount of waste we generate. We recycle or use 97.5% of all raw materials entering the plant, shipping them out as finished products or as 27 different recyclable byproducts. Our goal is to boost that to 99% and we’re almost there. The fact that it pays and makes environmental sense is a win-win for us. I don’t know why any printer wouldn’t want to do it, but it is an investment – the scrap handling system equipment we installed cost $400,000 — so you have to be smart about it.
Read more at this link :- http://sections.whattheythink.com/environment/2008/12/green-team-thoughts-on-going-green
