Sustainability Spotlight
Sustainability Spotlight offers informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. FESPA speaks to industry experts about sustainability where you can discover business opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle materials and improve your knowledge.
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How reducing waste can lower costs and improve profitability for your business
Nessan Cleary explains how businesses can increase their profit by being more sustainable by reducing energy consumption, improving recycling and most importantly motivating staff to implement these new policies.
How to assess and report your environmental sustainability
Laurel Brunner discusses how ISO has now approved a new project that will suppor the industry's sustainability. The new work, ISO 19311, provides requirements for sustainability assessment reporting and the idea is to make it easier to evaluate sustainability reports, like for like.
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How will Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation affect printers?
Laurel Brunner discusses the European Union’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and how it is important for printers to be aware of this and it will contribute towards business planning.
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Why is The Global Reporting Initiative important for printers who work for large corporations?
Laurel Brunner discusses the significance of The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for printers who work for large corporations and how print buyers require their media investments to align with corporate sustainability commitments and shareholder expectations.
6 suppliers of environmentally friendly fabrics for Digital Textile Printing
Debbie McKeegan shares 6 suppliers who are combining sustainability and producing high quality sustainable fabrics for digital textile printing. They are proving that businesses can be environmentally responsible without sacrificing the quality of their product.
FESPA achieves ISO certification for Sustainable Event Management
FESPA is pleased to announce that it has achieved ISO 20121:2012 certification for Sustainable Event Management, an internationally recognised standard for implementing an effective and sustainable event management system.
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How to make effective sustainable changes for your business
FESPA has created Sustainability Spotlight to offer informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. This article offers various guidelines for businesses to help them make sustainable business changes, access the full guidelines below.
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FESPA UK partners with industry suppliers to improve print media recycling
FESPA UK add Self-adhesive Plastics and Siliconised backing papers to their Waste Management Accreditation Scheme and welcomes support from key industry suppliers.
Greener chemistry for textile & leather supply chains
John Murphy, Technical Director Europe from Hohenstein shares how OEKO-TEX® ECO PASSPORT is a credible proof of sustainable textile and leather chemicals that affect global consumers, manufacturers, brands, and retailers.
FESPA Print Census: rising sustainability demands
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of Sustainability in the FESPA Print Census. Respondents were all in agreement that there is a rise in sustainability demands. The FESPA Print Census provides a detail account of the latest industry trends for FESPA members.
Understanding Sustainability: Navigating Legislation, Logos, and Accreditations
The subject of Sustainability can be challenging to navigate and understand particularly regarding legislation, logos and accreditations. Steve Lister emphasizes that legislation as a compliance will be crucial this year in 2024.
Standards and certifications are important
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of quality control and production excellence are important factors to consider for the profit in modern print production. Growing numbers of manufacturers are setting up are creating their own standards and certification programmes.
Points of sustainability progress
Laurel Brunner shares progress that has been made in sustainability across the print sector with a particular look at ISO standards and recycling.
Insite Graphics achieves Tier 5 ESSA Sustainability Accreditation due to sustainable initiatives
Insite Graphics are the go-to industry experts in business event signage and graphics. Here, they share the business’ sustainable initiatives that have helped them gain Tier 5 ESSA Sustainability Accreditation. By sharing these initiatives, they hope they can offer other businesses inspiration to take their first step towards making their own businesses more sustainable.
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Sustainability certifications on the rise
Laurel Brunner discusses how more printers and manufacturers are seeking sustainability certifications and how having certifications shows that a business has undergone some soft of accountability process.
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Certification Schemes, Energy Reduction and Brands
Sustainability is crucial for every business to take into account, particularly the certification schemes available, the importance of energy reduction and the significance of understanding your business's supply chains.
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Laurel Brunner discusses the Global Reporting Initiative which assists organisations and businesses manage reporting of their environmental impacts.
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What are the most relevant certifications for printed apparel and fashion?
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to John Murphy, Technical Director Europe at Hohenstein Group about OEKO TEX Standard 100 (Product Labelling) certification scheme and the Ecopassport certifications scheme. Both discuss the steps of implementation to take to become certified and the key risks if you businesses do not invest.
