There are myriad “green” programs and certifications out there, but sometimes it makes sense to develop your own. Here are two companies - one a printer and one a paper merchant - that have developed some unique programs to cut down on the volume of materials that end up in landfills.
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
Earlier this year,
Delta Printing Solutions, Valencia CA, which produces product manuals, books, catalogs, and directories, launched their “Delta Paper Recycling Program.” This program provides pickup of obsolete or unused book inventory for recycling from their customer’s warehouse on a quarterly basis. These items are “back-hauled” on trucks that often would return empty, thus reducing unnecessary emissions.
This new program allows the usage and re-introduction of paper back into raw material since obsolete inventory is typically either scrapped or customers would have to pay to have materials removed and disposed of properly.
Materials picked up at the customer’s site consist of clean unused books, printed materials, or board packaging. These items are stacked and wrapped on pallets and transported to the Delta Printing Solutions facility for shredding and bailing. Delta Printing Solutions then issues a letter certifying that the materials have been destroyed, recycled, and delivered to a paper mill for conversion to pulp for use in making paper.
To learn more, visit
Delta Printing Solutions website.
Phoenix Media Direct, Coquitlam, BC (just outside Vancouver), has launched an initiative called “The Green Planet Program.” Provider of Phoenix Eco Bond - 30% post consumer waste, 92 bright bond paper - a paper used by reprographics companies, Phoenix Media Direct has decided to go one step further.
Over the last 13 years, Phoenix Media Direct has had its own recycling program known as the “core pick up” where the company has collected empty paper cores to rewind paper on them and reduce waste sent to land fills. More recently the company has expanded that service to include cardboard cores, plastic wrap from rolls of paper, end caps, and empty ink and toner cartridges; labeling the service “Green Planet Partner Program.”
For more information, go to the
Phoenix Media Direct website.
These are just two more ways that you - and your customers - can “go green!”
Earlier this year, Delta Printing Solutions, Valencia CA, which produces product manuals, books, catalogs, and directories, launched their “Delta Paper Recycling Program.” This program provides pickup of obsolete or unused book inventory for recycling from their customer’s warehouse on a quarterly basis. These items are “back-hauled” on trucks that often would return empty, thus reducing unnecessary emissions.
This new program allows the usage and re-introduction of paper back into raw material since obsolete inventory is typically either scrapped or customers would have to pay to have materials removed and disposed of properly.
Materials picked up at the customer’s site consist of clean unused books, printed materials, or board packaging. These items are stacked and wrapped on pallets and transported to the Delta Printing Solutions facility for shredding and bailing. Delta Printing Solutions then issues a letter certifying that the materials have been destroyed, recycled, and delivered to a paper mill for conversion to pulp for use in making paper.
To learn more, visit Delta Printing Solutions website.
