Environment

Since mid-2019 we have been developing our range of large format products, with an eye to keeping them as eco-friendly as possible. And to that end this year we have designed, produced and installed our first eco-friendly large format Christmas trees for Specialized Cycles.

First up it must be noted that the plastic business card boxes we use are recyclable and made from reusable polypropylene. Secondly, the reason we use plastic business card boxes and not cardboard ones is because it is the only way we can guarantee the integrity of the contents. Cardboard boxes are just not up the handling they get either in the mail system or in the (sometimes not very careful!) hands of the couriers. So you have a small, sturdy plastic box left over. What can you do with it? We’ve come up with a few different uses that may give a new life to your old box.

Any business, no matter the size, has a responsibility to find the right packaging for its products. With a strong customer driven focus to move away from plastics, excess packaging and costly materials, eco-friendly packaging is rightly becoming the packaging of choice.

Leading the way on adopting eco-packaging are the small businesses and we are here to help make that process as easy as possible.

The fashion industry is under the spotlight. And not in a good way. 2018 is the year that the fashion industry is being held to account in terms of how eco-friendly their products are, and they are being found wanting.

Shocking fact – it takes up to 10,000 litres of water to make a single pair of jeans. Frightening.

As the UK’s first ever online eco-printer we have been blazing a trail for environmentally friendly printing since 2006, offering a comprehensive range of products available on recycled papers and printed with vegetable oil based inks and eco-friendly toners. And whilst these days almost all inks are vegetable oil based and almost all paper pulp is sourced from sustainable crop grown forests we continue to promote and champion eco-friendly printing because doing no harm to our planet is what we believe in.

Over a certain volume it is more practical and cost effective to produce printed flyers using litho printing.  This essentially means using wet ink as opposed to dry toners. What does this mean for your design?

We here at A Local Printer are passionate about helping the environment and are proud to promote the use recycled paper across all our online printing services. However, we appreciate that not everyone is as aware of the benefits of environmentally friendly printing as we are; therefore we thought it would be a good idea to put together a brief Q & A. Hopefully, this will help all of our customers to make a more informed choice regarding their commercial printing or plain paper requirements.

So we're very good at collecting and recycling paper to make in to new paper - but where does the ink go? A good question and one we have an answer to if you read on

Capital Growth is an apt name for an initiative that takes unused or derelict land and turns it in to growing projects. This folded leaflet newsletter give all the info.